Markets in Assassination?

Steven Schear schear.steve at gmail.com
Fri Jul 27 15:57:46 PDT 2018


If they didn't get on #45's death but only him not being in office at year
end I don't see the legal issue.

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018, 3:53 PM Mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net> wrote:

> On 07/27/2018 03:27 PM, jim bell wrote:
> >
> https://reason.com/archives/2018/07/27/markets-in-assassination-everybody-panic
> >
> > Markets in Assassination?  Everybody Panic!!
> > July 27, 2018
> >
> > Declan McCullagh,
>
> <SNIP>
>
> > This week's media scare arose after a single person used the Augur
> protocol to bet on whether President Donald Trump would survive 2018, and
> that person apparently placed the bet on a lark after a Twitter discussion.
>
> Any bets on when this person will be in jail? I mean, Twitter ain't so
> anonymous, being typically linked to mobile accounts. And neither is
> Ethereum, it seems, in that it relies on UDP, which Tor doesn't handle.
>
> > The foundation has tried to distance itself from unlawful uses of Augur,
> stressing on its website that it "has no power to censor, restrict, or
> curate markets, orders, trades, positions or resolutions on the Augur
> protocol contracts." Earlier this week, it formally relinquished its
> ability to shut down the network. Now the fate of Augur, and of its
> associated prediction markets, now in the hands of its users.
>
> Indeed. Many of whom will be pwning themselves.
>
> > [end of article]
> >
> >
> > Jim Bell
> >
>
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