The ones who walk towards Acre(gwern.net)
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The ones who walk towards Acre
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How is this relevant to HN?
Assassination markets (and prediction markets in general) are fairly intimately tied to cryptocurrencies; writings on them included them as thought experiments back in the 90's.
It's actually particularly relevant because someone seem to be making a serious effort at one using, naturally, Bitcoin: Sanjuro's "Assassination Market" (see http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road#future-developments for details).
It's hard to tell if AM's a scam or not by the nature of assassination markets, which turns out to be an interesting observation, IMO - it never occurred to me, reading the original speculations, that assassination markets would be so much harder to bootstrap than drug markets like Silk Road.
It's hard to tell if AM's a scam or not by the nature of assassination markets, which turns out to be an interesting observation, IMO - it never occurred to me, reading the original speculations, that assassination markets would be so much harder to bootstrap than drug markets like Silk Road.
Jim Bell gave a straightforward way to bootstrap - start with ordinary prediction market and gain trust.
And that is probably why we won't get them, practically nobody will risk their profit from legal service by turning them into assasination market.
And that is probably why we won't get them, practically nobody will risk their profit from legal service by turning them into assasination market.
because bitcoin, I suspect
This long predates Bitcoin, although BTC gives it a new immediacy. Assassination prediction markets like this were a topic of discussion on cypherpunk mailing lists back in the 1990s.
It's one way to give anonymity (or strong pseudonymity) a political dimension, positive or negative.
It's one way to give anonymity (or strong pseudonymity) a political dimension, positive or negative.