On 10/9/23 20:23, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
Like most cypherpunk ideas - bitcoin, TOR, bittorent - it has a fatal flaw - it doesn't actually work as advertised.
Suppose I am an assassin. I kill the target. How am m I going to get paid? I don't mean some pseudoanonymous mechanism of payment, but who decides I get paid?
Who do I complain to if I don't get paid?
You have a pseudonymous identity, and you can prove that a document comes from you. You issue a document that indicates that your pseudonymous identity was connected to the assassination (inside knowledge, advance knowledge. For example the hash of a document describing the intended details of the hash is in preimage of a hash that is in the preimage .. of the current root of a blockchain, so subsequently your pseudonymous identity can prove knowledge of the details of the assassination in advance. Other pseudonymous identities that wanted the target assassinated pay up - or not. If you are not paid, you pseudonymously complain to the public. If you were paid, they can prove that their pseudonymous identity paid your pseudonymous identity. If they cannot prove it, then no future assassins will have regard for their bounties, so they lose power.