Re: This new Ethereum-based “assassination market” platform could cause Napster-size legal headaches MIT Technology Review Article

[Mirimir]

On 08/02/2018 04:14 PM, Steven Schear wrote:
> "Augur’s creators claim they don’t have control over what its users choose
> to do with the protocol—or the ability to shut it down. This creates a
> problem that is “endemic” to blockchain technology, says Wright, who
> recently co-wrote a book on the subject: “If you do not have a very
> concrete intermediary—i.e., a company or group of people that are running
> the marketplace—how do you apply laws and prevent that activity from
> occurring?”
> 
> This is, as they say in marketing, not a problem but a feature.

Yep. I mean, that's the fucking point!

But I gotta say, they need to work on the anonymity aspect. The argument
that participation anonymity doesn't matter, as long as adversaries
can't attribute stuff, is weak. Look at Freenet, for example.

> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018, 3:55 PM jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
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>> https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611757/this-new-ethereum-based-assassination-market-platform-could-cause-napster-size-legal/

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