Assassination Politics

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JVictor42
Mar 13 2022

Bitcoin assassination markets could quickly end war

Writer and libertarian Tim Bell, described by Wired Magazine as “one
of the Internet’s most famous essayists,” reported in 1997 that after
the creation of an Internet-native cryptocurrency-such as Bitcoin
(BTC)-the world’s first decentralized assassination markets would
emerge.

Bell describes in 10 articles entitled Assassination Politics, how
these markets could work.

Initially, the heads of dictators, despots and psychopaths could be
put up for a bounty, similar to the jurisdiction of the American Old
West, where there was a reward for criminals; “Wanted dead or alive.”

The prize could easily be raised in a voluntary fundraiser done in
cryptocurrency. How many people would be willing to pay the equivalent
of $10 dollars to see their country’s dictator die? Perhaps millions.

“Consider how history might have changed if we had been able to
“overthrow” Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Kim Il Sung, Ho
Chi Minh, Ayatollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein, Moammar Khadafi, and
several others, along with all their replacements if necessary, all
for a measly few million dollars, instead of the billions of dollars
and millions of lives that subsequent wars have cost.” — Tim Bell.

The reward would then be awarded to whoever could accurately “predict”
the day of death of the person with a price on his head. Usually, this
person would be the killer himself.

Payment would be made in cryptocurrency, so that it would not be
possible to identify who received the prize.
Russian-Ukrainian War

If such a market already existed at a more advanced stage of trust and
liquidity, Vladimir Putin’s head would certainly be on the line by
now.

Surely, many powerful people today already have an interest that the
Russian pseudo-dictator disappears. However, allowing anonymous
payment to anyone close enough to consummate the act — such as
employees, friends or family members — exponentially increases the
chance of an eventual attack.

The same could happen with Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine,
who has tyrannically prevented men from leaving the country, as well
as politicians and high-ranking officials in the Russian and Ukrainian
governments who are condoning these actions.

“At the Village pizzeria, while they were sitting down to a pepperoni,
Dorothy asked Jim: ‘So, what other inventions are you working on?

Jim replied: ‘I have a new idea, but it’s really evolutionary.
Literally REVOLUTIONARY.’

“Okay, Jim, which government are you planning to overthrow?” she
asked, jokingly.

‘All of them,’ he replied.”
Problems to be solved

In order to create a market like this, some fundamental issues will
need to be solved. Bitcoin needs to have more anonymity and
fungibility, something that should occur over the next few years with
updates and soft forks.

Taproot, the last major update to the Bitcoin network, was another
step toward making transactions harder to trace.

When this occurs, and a market emerges that demonstrates trust and
success in its first use cases, such as enabling the assassination of
some small country dictator, it would certainly attract attention and
funding from around the world.

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An assassination market paid in bitcoin could potentially end hundreds
of despot conflicts around the world in a much more efficient and less
costly way.