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After the last of the Dirty Harry films, The Dead Pool, was released in 1988, libertarians began to discuss the potential for crypto-currency prediction markets to become crowdfunded assassination markets. Many schemes were proposed and many were unworkable. The main complication is an assassin using zero-knowledge proof to claim a bounty without implicating any other party. This arrangement ignores betting exchanges where anyone can lay or back bets and no-one on a given exchange may be involved in assassination. Discussion has been sparse regarding secondary markets for fake death followed by new identity.
Whether or not a dead pool is bloodless, ire has been most often directed at government officials and the actual use of lethal force. When a BitCoin dead pool launched in 2013, Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, became subject of the biggest bounty. Perhaps it was obvious with hindsight that libertarian capitalists in possession of digital currency would focus on the person directly responsible for managing the world's largest, centralized, debt-based, nation-state, fiat currency.
Anyhow, given that a real assassination market has supposedly been running for four years, where are the high-profile deaths? Or disappearances? Is digital currency too complicated for soldiers of fortune? Too risky? Too ephemeral? Are the rewards too small? Will digital currency's increased value and flight to safety encourage libertarianism not previously seen? Or are people wimps?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @11:41PM (3 children)
I met a kid recently when he was home on leave. He enlisted in the Marines out of high school and I guess had a talent for shooting, They invited him to join one of their elite squads with special training -- now he's an official scout sniper. I don't have a clue what he will do after he leaves the service, but you can bet that he's a damn good shot and probably will need money (because these elites don't get paid very well). I'm sure he's not the only one with all this training...
(Score: 4, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday June 20 2017, @12:27AM (2 children)
And that's why welfare (GI Bill, etc.), health care (fix the VA!), and societal support (free food/movies/etc. on military holidays) for vets is a good thing. Don't need a real life Rambo on our hands.
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday June 20 2017, @01:53AM
Yeah, but you forgot something important about Rambo.
They drew first blood.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 3, Funny) by jdavidb on Tuesday June 20 2017, @04:38PM
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings