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Meet the 'Assassination Market' Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins
schwit1 writes "As Silk Road emerged from the 'dark-web', other sites have appeared offering services that are frowned upon by most. As Forbes reports, perhaps the most-disturbing is 'The Assassination Market' run by a pseudonymous Kuwabatake Sanjuro. The site, remarkably, is a crowdfunding service that lets anyone anonymously contribute bitcoins towards a bounty on the head of any government official–a kind of Kickstarter for political assassinations. As Forbes reports, NSA Director Alexander and President Obama have a BTC40 bounty (~$24,000) but the highest bounty — perhaps not entirely surprising — is BTC 124.14 (~$75,000) for none other than Ben Bernanke."
Assassination Politics I think he went to jail for it.
Odds are you're going to be dead immediately after, so what good does the money do you?
guaranteed to get the whole government in on breaking the Bitcoin chain, as well as getting your ass parked in a Federal prison for a whole lot of years. it's so idiotic that it has to be a government operation to suck in idiots who are looking for jail time.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
What, no direct link to the site?
It is pretty straight forward how it will work.
1) People send in money.
2) After a while the site closes down.
3) Person that put up the site earns a nice profit.
The only disturbing part is the guy did it so early, someone with real planning would of waited for the US Presidential election and then really brought in the money.
But for those dollar figures I can't even be bothered to do a recon.
The Jackal.
How exactly do you prove your the one who shot or poisoned the target? Seems difficult to collect not to mention the legalities and morals of the act. Sounds more like an FBI honeypot.
I feel like I have been put on the list just for reading this. But then I realize I'm already on the list for everything else I read on the internet.
I would be expecting the NSA to be cracking Bitcoin / TOR as we speak to prosecute people for material support of terrorism.
I bet that the owner of the site could be charged with "conspiracy to commit murder".
...because guys at Wall Street and generally in business have plenty of spare bitcoins, no conscience, and think it's "funny"
...someone starts a bounty on the site for "Kuwabatake Sanjuro"?
Yaz
Remember kids, if the government does it it's OK.
Political violence doesn't work to actually implement social change. It only plays into the hands of authoritarians who rule by fear, in this case fear of you. Kill Bernanke, and they have a great propaganda tool against your cause. And they can replace Bernanke with no trouble. And you haven't actually done anything to harm the people whose interests Bernanke is protecting.
There is an excellent essay on the topic, dating from the 1970s, titled You Can't Blow up a Social Relationship. From the preamble:
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I'm curious why this market, created to fulfill a legitimate need, is being called "disturbing". Doesn't the US have a history of kneecapping (foreign) terrorists and (foreign) dictators while leaving alone home-grown genocidal monsters?
I'm now happy to see someone is taking the matter at hands.
When i see the US are allowed to commit remote murder in almost any part of the world and on the other hand retarded coercive "leaders" are a threat to our society as a whole (think David Cameron) i think it's absolutely normal to see people organizing themselves and financing a campaign to get said person killed.
The people of the internet have more legitimacy than any government.
At least there should be public crowdsourced lists of dangerous people for everyone to see and sometimes take action when possible in order to purge the world.
Searching for Ben Bernanke brings up as first news "BERNANKE: Bitcoin 'May Hold Long-Term Promise'
Business Insider - 4 hours ago
Ben Bernanke sort of endorses Bitcoin."
Do you think he knew of the bounty?
It sure is easy to glean the political leanings of the largest contributors.
Hint: Starts with "liber" and ends with "naive sockpuppet of the far-right"
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3072985/
~Sticky
Crypto viruses, this, ransoms, ....
Bitcoin is doomed.
Regardless of whose doing the harm (i.e. false flag), the fact of the matter is that Bitcoin's days are numbered.
It's way too conducive to illegal and harmful behavior.
... only the guy who near single-handedly saved the world economy from total and utter destruction.
(YES, he did have a bit to do with the bubble in the first place... but that was mostly the previous free-market, deregulationist Fed chairman's fault.)
Of course, this assassination nonsense is a scam and a horrific idea. But sweet jesus, these anti-Fed demogogues are such self-denialist losers. Sure, let's go back to the gold standard so we can have a Panic every 15 years. Let's relinquish total control over our money supply and our economy for absolutely no reason. Let's just hand over our nation's economic advantage as the world's go-to currency... great idea... ...say the same idiots who insisted QE would lead to global hyperinflation (wrong), that the biggest problem our government has is the national debt (wrong), that nations need to tighten their belts during a recession (wrong), that there was no gold bubble (wrong), and that nothing bad would ever happen if we default... How many times do these people have to be proven wrong, over and over?
But I guess it makes sense that the ultra-paranoid sorts of people who would be attracted to the idea of bitcoin are the same ones who would hold some kind of insane vendetta against the Fed, totally missing the mark on who REALLY to blame for the near collapse and meltdown of western civilization.
For people who don't get the joke, "kuwabatake" means "mulberry farm" in Japanese (where you would raise silk worms).
"Sanjuro" is a standard alias for a 30 year old guy (it literally means "30 year old guy", more or less).
I wonder if this isn't an operation to sour the public on Bitcoin? I mean, not that it needs much to sour the folks here on Slashdot, but the common Joe/Jane on the street might need some Emmanuel Goldsteins to scream at for two minutes.
And with all the revelations of Snowden and Wikileaks, calling someone a "tinfoil hatter" has lost most of it's sting.
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where you can find people willing to do mercenary work
it seems wrong that such a site with a list of people to execute could exist. it brings the good old lynch mob in to the digital era. fun times. gov officials should not have to operate in fear of assassination.
yet. it is interesting that this is exactly what the us gov is doing with its enemies, building hit lists, ranking them, and executing.
My God can beat up your God. Just kidding...don't take offense. I know there's no God.
and the guy who did that will die soon after that
So says Anonymous Dickhead Coward
I'll laugh if the entire site is a honeypot designed to identify people willing to crowdfund the assassination of world leaders.
as opposed to you, who just practically falls over himself to suck dicks period!
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Screw that - I suppose this illustrates why such an economy is inherently subject to exactly the sort of abuses we have governments in place to prevent. Up with Electronic Banking! Death to Bitcoin!
I'm going to get flamed here; too bad. If Bitcoin can't regulate itself sufficiently to prevent abuses, than Bitcoin has to go.
Interesting that the approach used for confirmations was presented at a cryptography conference just over two years ago:
http://fc12.ifca.ai/pre-proceedings/paper_69.pdf
No paywall, direct link to PDF.
We found the missing part of the '???' belonging to this meme.
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I don't condone this shit... however it is ridiculous who tops the list. There are far more deserving candidates (not saying do it... just for argument's sake). Here are some ones to start:
But seriously, this is not to advocate an assassination or 'hit', it is just to point out people in power who are doing real harm to others. Advocating assassination would be ridiculous. But compared to these people, the worst in American government are like boy scouts (OK aside from a few guys like President Cheney). And not the anal sex ones. Hey, not that there's anything wrong with that.
Its altogether more simple, they have bitcoins. Why look for paranoia when greed will do.
Summary appears to be ripped verbatim from zerohedge. Or did it originate somewhere else? It'd be nice if people would cite their sources.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-18/dark-web-exposes-75000-bitcoin-based-bounty-bernankes-assassination
Why do I think the home server for this assassination market is located at the CIA headquarters?
Or it's simply a honeypot.
Or some bizarre ultra-libertarian performance art.
Still wouldn't be as bizarre or outlandish as the time in 2006 that Loyalist Michael Stone attempted to enter the Stormont Assembly in Northern Ireland and assassinate the leaders of Sinn Fein, then claimed that it was "performance art".
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This whole Bitcoin thing and everything associated with it is an ongoing circus made up of different kinds of idiots. Idiots who don't understand that Bitcoin is the most non-anonymous "currency" in existence. Idiots who don't understand that Bitcoin is completely unusable as any kind of legitimate business transaction because the value fluctuates wildly. Idiots who don't understand that the Internet is completely non-anonymous. Idiots who don't understand economics 101.
Bitcoin, to me at least, is a lot like Sarah Palin: Unbelievably stupid and something nobody should waste time with, but like a car wreck, something we can't stop watching in utter disbelief.
I don't respond to AC's.
For every assassination bounty hosted they should also host a corresponding anti-assassination bounty. The assassin would be paid the net pro-assassination value, that is, the difference between the two bounties, and the bounty hosting site would keep the remainder. For opposing interests of equal magnitude in a bidding war this would be hugely profitable for the bounty hosting site and also result in nobody actually getting assassinated. It would also be more equitable because it represents the opinions of both pro-assassination and anti-assassination sides, not just the pro-assassination side.
Though seriously, the entire subject is revolting. Almost every American, love Obama or hate Obama, love Bush or hate Bush, agrees that they do not want their President to be assassinated. Despite disagreements in American politics, there are essential fundamental core values which unite us all, and that we do not assassinate our leaders is one of them.
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
1) Create anonymous crowd funding website for dodgy activity people won't want to own up to (out of fear, like drug or murder prosecution). ...
2) Have people give you money.
3) Shut down site and pocket money.
Profit!
Since he's the only person who can pay out the coins. =)
But still, would be a clear message for a government to send.
who the hell modded you interesting? Right - those who expose the theft are "Self denialist losers" compared to the biggest theft in human history.
Let me give you a lesson in reality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDe5kUUyT0
Once you digest that, and you have no response for the criminal enterprise that is "the fed", slowly walk away from your computer and take a deep breath. Then come back to reality. You're back? Great!
In a nutshell, the federal reserve is the reason we as humanity are enslaved by debt. And Ben Bernanke heads that private cartel of foreign banks (who's shareholders are never disclosed) I can understand why someone might not like his evil thievery.
That's great you bought the entire mainstream media lie anonymous coward. But those who know about jekyll island, the betrayal of woodrow wilson to the united states, and how andrew jackson fought this evil banking force when their chartesr expired, know the true history of banking.
You take your last 10 years of your pitiful understanding of the history and shove it up your butthole, while the rest of us recognize hundreds of years of European banking interests subverting the liberty of every nation on earth.
END THE FED
The Assassin's Guild in Discworld, for one.
You are now no better than those you despise and for the exact same despicable things for which you claim they do.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Well, with 12 bullets in his body, it's no surprise they found him dead.
Now if you had said they found him practicing shots on goal with 12 bullets in his body, now that would be surprising.
My God can beat up your God. Just kidding...don't take offense. I know there's no God.
What is not to like. By opening markets and eliminating barriers to entry, we ensure that our assasinations are of the best possible quality. Mr Bernake should heartily applaud the efforts of this free market entrepeneur. No longer are political assasinations entireley controlled by governments. We all know how bloated and beurcratic governments are. Let's let the free market to it better.
Free trade and fair markets for all. In a sense robbery and rape are also free market policies. Rape allows for the best possible genes to be passed along. Hell Chingis KHan is responsible for 1/6 the worlds' populations. You can't say that aint strong. Robbery means that those who have the most highly developed martial arts skill get to keep their stuff. I am all for this. How many time have you seen old people who can barely walk with a lot of stuff. By encourating free market robbery, we ensure that the youngets and best looking people have the most stuff. What is not to love.
Off coarse everything I just said flys out the window when you have a society that adheres to a strong code of moralls. But then again all the free market capitalists frown on moral codes, and have no problem outsourcing overseas, running payday lending operations, or using slave labor. They have no problem bankrupting a company and then living their life out in the cayman islands. So assasination may not be such a bad thing.
As Forbes reports, NSA Director Alexander and President Obama have a BTC40 bounty (~$24,000) but the highest bounty — perhaps not entirely surprising — is BTC 124.14 (~$75,000) for none other than Ben Bernanke.
It sort of says a lot that Forbes had to tell their readers that "some guy named Alexander" is the Director of the NSA and "Obama" is the President (of something...), but apparently all their readers know exactly who Ben Bernanke is, without any further information.
Woohoo! Where do I donate? Hey NSA, mark my file as "promotes assassination, subversive, needs to be watched closely."
The only thing worse than a Democrat is a Republican.
I thought of it as soon as I saw the headline. Thanks for posting a link!
https://assmkedzgorodn7o.onion.to
At this time, it's a cute idea, but not newsworthy unless you want to advertise the service.
Post an article when they have paid out the first bounty.
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
And if women were simply forced by law to give it up whenever someone else wanted, there would be no rape.
WTF do Anarchists have to do with this?
OK, it's Forbes and they belong to the kind of idiots who call "liberal" to anything that doesn't carry a huge cross on his neck and owns a Tea Party affiliation card... but mates, moderate yourself.
Anarchists just don't give a shit
-- 29A the number of the Beast
to take this seriously, and not just attraction for medias, every listed person should have personal address. In any case, for killing politicians, 100 000 euro is minimum necessity as reward. there is just 1 btc. Beside it, it is not secure for killer that he writes to him in advance the exact time and date when politicians will finish dead. killer can be arrested because of that. there is good website of killer at freenet, but he told me he is not working now in America, only Europe. this is the key which can be used with freenet project software: USK@RcdvyeyP47D7YtCVPdixdBdJTZbVaKAykSuxl--a608,ZKr~orlQ6Zm4lHECLHKlUB7SCACDNnPndaW19reaHEQ,AQACAAE/ContractKiller/0