Fwd: [Cryptography] A possible alternative to TOR and PrivaTegrity without backdoors

jim bell jdb10987 at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 14 01:05:45 PST 2016



 From: David Bernier <david250 at videotron.ca>
>Just today, I read a Forbes story from late 2013 where an
>anonymous had set up a web-site featuring Bounties in
>bitcoins for assassination of named public figures, which
>goes with the Crypto Anarchy "credo" (sometimes).
>Source:
>Nov 18, 2013 @ 08:30 AM
>Meet The 'Assassination Market' Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With
>Bitcoins
>Link:>http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/11/18/meet-the-assassination-market-creator-whos-crowdfunding-murder-with-bitcoins/#2715e4857a0b50146e921ac1
>David
Ah, yes, Sanjuro's Assassination Market.  I, more than most, would like to find out what really happenedwith that.  Inadvertently assisted by me (by directing the anonymous TOR-emailer, claiming to be 'Sanjuro', to AndyGreenberg of Forbes) it got a rather enormous amount of publicity almost instantly in the media.  Nevertheless, littleactually happened, and the media coverage didn't reflect nor describe that.  The main criticism I had of this was the fact that the system was said to have a minimum bid of 1 BTC, which at the time was somewhere around $1000.  This, contrasting with my Assassination Politics essay of 1995-96 where I anticipated allowing bits of 10 cents.  
Assassination Market did not explain a lot of what I had considered necessary for a functioning such system. How can a potential donor trust the system?  How can a potential 'predictor' trust the system?  How to collect?I never tried to research into this, because I judged that to do so would be a little too 'hot' for me to do.  Didany donations actually appear on the system after its initial announcement?  Did any new names/targets appear?
"I have a thousand questions I'd like you ask you, Mr. Klaatu".            Jim Bell  
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