Paging Jim Bell

[Steven Schear]

If, after operating for some time, a PM supporting AP is widely believed to
be anonymous for the wagers and and payouts, those who decide to fulfill AP
bets might not even consider survival after the act (especially if the
target is political and they are terminally ill people with the required
trade-craft and/or access to the targets). These "Zombie Patriots" could
use the ease of the AP crypto asset payout ownership by transferring the
BIP39 mnemonic to a relative or friend (perhaps using a distributed paper
2-of-3 recovery protocol,
https://coinstop.io/products/safewords-by-coin-storage-guru). This is
somewhat similar to how Palestinian authorities offered "insurance" to the
families of suicide bombers.

For a cypherpunk spy-thriller novel, dedicated to Jim Bell's AP vision (and
yours truly), using Zombie Patriots as a major plot point, see Graynet by
DS Kane, https://www.amazon.com/GrayNet-Book-Spies-DS-Kane/dp/0996059199/

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 10:48 AM, Mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net> wrote:

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> > And he was right.   It is the size, or lack of it, which is the primary
> thing which has prevented 'dead pool' betting from turning into AP.
>
> OK, so I'm not setup for Augur. But the example in the article was "Will
> Donald Trump (President of the USA) be killed at any point during 2018".
> So let's say that someone kills him on October 31, at 11:10 pm EST,
> wearing a Michael Myers mask. How does does the killer profit on Augur?
>
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