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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."
Can it be any Government official? I always knew I'd find a way to get back at that small town meter maid.....
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Or some bizarre ultra-libertarian performance art.
Perhaps they should crowd-fund it to get higher bounties.
Ya, I saw something on Slashdot about that.
I am not a crackpot.
As well he should. That website's layout is downright criminal.