Meet the 'Assassination Market' Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 18, 2013 @09:46AM from the dark-places dept.

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."

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Re:How is this disturbing? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-11-18 10:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Or some bizarre ultra-libertarian performance art.
Re:I'm so sorry. by Rob+the+Bold · 2013-11-18 10:05 · Score: 5, Funny

Perhaps they should crowd-fund it to get higher bounties.
Ya, I saw something on Slashdot about that.

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Re:Assassination Politics by ifiwereasculptor · 2013-11-18 10:09 · Score: 5, Funny

As well he should. That website's layout is downright criminal.