Out of sheer anger towards dishonest public officials in our country, most of us have been plotting a way to kill them in the back of our mind. Now, if you’re thinking of putting your devilish thoughts to action, then the Assassination Market may just very well be your best bet.
Assassination Market is a site ran by someone who goes by the codename Kuwabatake Sanjuro. Because of the nature of the site, and to assure online anonymity, the site can only be viewed on a special browser like TOR (The Onion Router).
The site uses Bitcoins as currency for the crowdsourced bounty. The way it works is that users can suggest a “target” (requires at least one bitcoin pledge) on the site which will be then reviewed and approved by Sanjuro. Other users/assassins can then place their pledge on a particular target and “guess” when the target will die. Whoever got the closest guess takes home 99% of the pot (1% goes to Sanjuro as a commission).
Kuwabatake Sanjuro is a fictional character from 1961 Japanese film Yojimbo.
That seems a bit unfair for the mercenary, right? After all, he/she did the dirty work, but got away empty-handed.
Well technically speaking, submitting a “guess” along with your bitcoin pledge isn’t as simple as you think. I’ll spare you the nerdy stuff, but the way Sanjuro sees it is if the exact date of death matches your “guess”, then you’re most probably be the killer. Either way it’s a win-win for everybody; the SOB laid to rest, the Hitman gets his bounty and nobody knows anyone!
As of the time of writing, the site’s man-of-the-hour is none other than the head of US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke. He currently has a total of B124.14(Bitcoins) bounty on his head which is equivalent to USD75,000 or little over 3.2-million in our local currency.
Fortunately for our local public officials, Bitcoin ain’t that big of a deal in this part of the globe. If it is, then I’m pretty sure that Kevlar vests and bullet-proof cars will be in fashion.
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