As digital currencies Bitcoins become more popular as a means of payment, begins serving criptodivisa to buy everything from socks to sushi or heroin . If an anarchist it achieves its purpose , will also soon set to loot as a reward for murders.
Under the pseudonym Sanjuro Kuwavatake , one man has created the web Assassination Market, ' the market 's murder ' in Spanish . This is a crowdfunding service that allows any bitcoins anonymously donate to the reward for the head of a government office. A sort of Kickstarter for political assassinations. Under the rules of this site , if someone on your list of goals is murdered, and he confessed to Sanjuro Forbes hopes that many would - be murderer who can prove any authorship receives the reward.
For now , the rewards offered by this website are small, but not insignificant. In the four months leading online Market Assassinations , six objectives have been submitted by users and rewards ranging from ten bitcoins by the head of the NSA Director Keith Alexander , 40 bitcoins by Barack Obama. The greatest reward is offered in this blog is putting a price on the head of the president of the Federal Reserve ( FED ) and the number one enemy of Bitcoins : Ben Bernanke. By his death 124.14 bitcoins is. With the current rate of exchange of Bitcoin , that's over 55,000 euros for the murder of Fed Chairman .
Sanjuro 's ambitions go beyond fundraising map to get a few politicians . According to Forbes confessed he is convinced that if Assassination Market can survive and increase its number of users will eventually be responsible for many murders of politicians that no one will dare to hold the position . He told the Financial Post that the ultimate goal is to destroy Assassination Market " all governments around the world."
"I think that will change the world for the better ," I said to Andy Greenberg Forbes contributor by e- mail . Sanjuro shares its name with the samurai protagonist of the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's ' Yojimbo ' nameless and states that chose it as a tribute to the creator of the Silk Road online black market , who called Dread Pirate Roberts ( Dread Pirate Roberts) as well as the creator of Bitcoins , Satoshi Nakamoto . " With this system , a world without wars, panoptic surveillance , nuclear weapons , armies, repression , manipulation of money and trade limits our power for only a few bitcoins per person. I also think that as soon as a few politicians are out and I realize that they have lost the war of privacy, the murders will stop and the transition will occur at a stage of peace, privacy and laissez - faire . "
Greenberg says that he contacted the Secret Service and the FBI to ask if they were investigating Assassination Market, and both refused to rule .
Like other pages considered the dark side of the web , Assassination Market runs through the Tor anonymity network , designed to prevent can identify users of this website or Sanjuro own . The decision to only accept Bitcoins Sanjuro is also focused to protect users, and any potential murderer Sanjuro to be identified by their financial transactions. After all, Bitcoins can be sent and received without any entity must be satisfied . In the directions for web users , Sanjuro suggests spending funds for a service "washing" to ensure that the coins are completely anonymous before contributing to increase the reward for political office.
Also, to prove that a murderer is responsible for the death of one of the objectives , Assassination Market murderers asks to create a text file with the date of death prematurely, and employ an encryption function known as hash ( mess) , to convert it into a single string. Before the murder , the murderer adds the string in a bitcoin donation or more to the reward for what will be his victim. When a target has been killed, the responsible Sanjuro can send the decrypted text file to verify that it was sent before the murder occurred. If the file is valid and correctly predicted the date of the murder , who sent him is deemed responsible for the murder according to the logic of Sanjuro , which 1% of the loot is a commission for their services.
This cold and calculating system of lethal violence inspires rejection. But Sanjuro says the animosity of society will not prevent the system work. And example of questionable ethics, ensures that only include objectives user posted " that implement this force against other human beings. Specifically , only against people who are outside the reach of the law , since the system has been corrupted , and the victims can only get even anonymously . "
Even leaving aside the immorality of murder , donating bitcoins by a minority to remove an elected official seems an attack on democracy. " Sure, but to limit democracy is why we have a constitution ," says Sanjuro . " A majority support does not legitimize a leader is more than slavery. With the great equanimity market forces of capitalism have the opportunity to also be applied to politics. Each donated Bitcoin is a vote for a veto of any legislation you do not like , "he adds .
But really, Sanjuro is not the original creator of the concept of a market -based murders crowfunding . The idea was born with the cyberpunk movement of the mid-nineties , whose members dreamed of encryption tools used to weaken the government and empower individuals . Intel engineer and founder of Cypherpunk Mailing List, Tim May, argued that indecipherable secret messages and untraceable digital currency markets could lead to murder in his Manifesto Criptoanarquista ( Cryptoanarchist 's Manifesto ) written in 1992 .
A few years later, another Intel engineer , Jim Bell, proposed a system of funds for killings through encrypted and anonymous donations in an essay titled " Assassination Politics " ( Assassination Politics) . The block system described in Sanjuro developed by considering elements that allow anonymity or Bitcoins as Tor , were science fiction at the time.
" If only 0.1 % of the population , one person in a thousand , would like to donate a dollar to see a dead rogue government, would be a $ 250,000 reward . Imagine someone interested in this reward can with mathematical certainty that there would be identified and can receive the loot without getting with someone, or even talk to who could later identify . Perfect anonymity , perfect secrecy. And that, combined with a simple method for collecting contributions , become a public office being a really dangerous option, " Bell wrote in his essay .
Later, Bell would be jailed for tax evasion and charge against a federal agent being released in March 2012. When Greenberg contacted him by e- mail , denied any link with the Assassination Market Sanjuro and declined to comment.
Sanjuro says Bell knew the idea . He decided to implement it when the information came out last summer on illegitimate surveillance conducted by the NSA revealed by Edward Snowden . "I was forced to change my happy memories while on internet, every intimate moment on the phone with my loved ones, to also include some of the people I hate most eavesdropping , analyzing the conversation. Was how much inspiration I needed to embark on this, " says Sanjuro . " After a week muttering ' should die ' every time I opened a newspaper or turned on the television , I decided that someone had to do something . This is my contribution to the cause "sentence.
Assassination Market is not the first website that relates murders Bitcoins . Tor hidden us with names like Quick Kill ( Assassination Fast ) Contract Killer ( Murderer Salaried ) or sell C'thulhu murders in exchange for Bitcoins , although it is very possible that this is scam .
How to be sure Assassination Market is also not a system similar fraud used to steal bitcoins other ? " You're not " recognize Sanjuro , but added that if it was a scam would be a very complex and risky , since the threat of harm to the U.S. President is a very serious crime .
"I enjoy a comfortable , though sometimes spartan life , and the only thing that really hurts me are the growing attacks on freedoms . I enjoy my day and also my privacy. I can not buy that with money, so do not need it for that. There is nothing I want more than to see this project succeed , and for that we need political dead "settled Sanjuro .
If this system works, Assassination Market launch could be intempestuoso for Sanjuro , given the recent police crackdown on the dark side of the web . In August, the FBI used an exploit in Tor to pull the signature page hosting Freedom Hosting and arrested its founder Eric Eoin Marques, accused of offering his service to child pornography websites . Also last month, the FBI also seized the black market drug known as Bitcoins Silk Road and arrested its alleged creator, Ross Ulbritch .
Sanjuro says that besides Tor , Bitcoin and classical encryption tools , has " effective measures to prevent such arrests . But they must naturally remain secret. "
He adds that , as in the early cyberpunk generation , he has put his faith in the promise of mathematical cryptography serve to undermine the government . "With the government cryptography or other protection firm is obsolete . Any activity can be reduced to a transfer of information that is completely outside the scope of government or any part of the parties involved , "says Sanjuro .
"I'm a crypto- anarchist " concludes Sanjuro to mediate that " we have a bright future ahead of us."
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