Anarchy has an all new, Internet based flavour. Assassination Market is a crowd-funded marketplace where you can get together with like minded people to order a hit on a politician, merely by paying with Bitcoins. In a report in Forbes, author Andy Greenberg spoke to the creator of the marketplace who referred to themselves as Kuwabatake Sanjuro. The founder pointed out to Assassination Market, a Kickstater sort of a marketplace, that lets anyone anonymously contribute Bitcoins towards issuing bounties on the heads of world politicians.
Bitcoin assassinations?
How it works is simple. People anonymously pool in money towards assassinating a politician. Once the deed is done, anyone who can prove they were responsible for the hit gets the bounty. Anarchism at its best. The site already has bounties in place for the murder of NSA Director Keith Alexander worth 10 Bitcoins, 40 Bitcoins for President Barack Obama and a whopping 124.14 Bitcoins for Ben Bernake, chairman of the Federal Reserve. At the current rate, Bernake’s hit is worth $75,000. True to theme of anarchy, Sanjuro says his mission is to make the Market so persistent that no politician ever dares to hold office. He intends it to destroy “all governments, everywhere.” He says, “Thanks to this system, a world without wars, dragnet panopticon-style surveillance, nuclear weapons, armies, repression, money manipulation, and limits to trade is firmly within our grasp for but a few bitcoins per person. I also believe that as soon as a few politicians gets offed and they realize they’ve lost the war on privacy, the killings can stop and we can transition to a phase of peace, privacy and laissez-faire.” Greenberg tried to ask the FBI and the Secret Services if they had been investigation Assassination Market, but they refused to comment. The most important aspect here is the use of Bitcoins to facilitate hits may not be as safe as Sanjuro expects it to be. After all, we are seeing underground market Silk Road being busted by the FBI currently, despite the use of seemingly anonymous Bitcoin trading. “I am a crypto-anarchist,” Sanjuro still says, talking about his faith in mathematical promise of cryptography. “We have a bright future ahead of us.”
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