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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Edit 2: Look up Jim Bell. He wrote a very popular essay in the 90s.

This is one of the things that scares me about most about completely anonymous currencies and networks: untraceable kill orders and, to a lesser extent, unlimited bribery (that already exists in US). Because you know, it opens the most possibilities to people with money. Like billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I suspect billionaires and other people of high authority, especially, would be the first ones on the list. But your average everyday person is very unlikely to be on the list because they don't have enough people who hate them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We need a black market gofundme so we can crowd source hits to keep up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not sure we would outweigh them - you know the statistics, almost half the wealth (potential kill orders) is held by top 1.1%.