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   From: "author@anonymousbitcoinbook.com"
   <author@anonymousbitcoinbook.com>
   On 2013-11-23 18:54, Jim Bell wrote:
   > I found this on Youtube.com.
   > [1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbGypiDik2E [1]
   > (Disclaimer: I am not associated with 'Sanjuro's "Assassination
   > Market" in any way. I do not know who he is.)
   >  Jim Bell

   > Links:
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   > [1] http:///
   >1) Ew, if it's real. Nothing good can come from that.
   I am about the last person in the world who would agree with that
   statement!
   >2) Probably not real, but just a honeypot.
   I suspect it's not a _government_ honeypot.  I haven't been promoting
   AP in the last 1.75 years.  (Since I left that "gated community", FCI
   Sheridan, Oregon.)  It's hard for me to imagine why a government
   (primary example, the U.S. Federal Government) would want to give
   publicity to my AP idea, when I was not doing so myself.  Moreover,
   'Sanjuro' (the pseudonymous operator of AM) has included a statement
   that the fund would pay off also if the target dies by ordinary,
   innocent, and natural means.  (Rather than paying only on a deliberate
   killing.)  If this is truly a honeypot, then presumably the purpose
   would be to catch donors/predictors to the system.  Adding that rule,
   that all predicted deaths would lead to a payment, would make it very
   difficult to assign legal liability to any such donor.  It would look
   too much like simple gambling, or for that matter life insurance of an
   odd sort.  (I anticipated precisely this tactic in 1995-96.)
   >Interesting find, in any case.
   >-Kristov
   As simple as doing Google "Assassination Market".
              Jim Bell

References

   1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbGypiDik2E