Jim Bell, who came up with the original "Assassination Politics" essay, went to jail a couple of times.
This latest market?
afaik, nobody has ever collected a bounty; so there will be a trust issue at least with people using it
the second issue is that people usually have to experience injustice first hand to get mad enough to do something, and even then, most people just aren't mentally prepared to kill
finally, just from my own perspective, I don't think there are enough people as a whole that are completely anti-government to make Sanjuo's market work the way he intends it; maybe if he phrased it as an anti-corruption device as opposed to an anti-government device?
I could see Kim Jong et al getting nervous about it.
A gofundme or Kickstarter where contributors can send their contribution in fiat, then have it converted to btc and dropped on his head...
I think you could pull in a few hundred thousand pretty quick.
there is an opsec problem w/ that; donations would have to be tied through an individual, and leave him open to retribution
there just has to be enough awareness as a whole within the general population of bitcoin, anonymity, opsec, etc...and there isn't.
those of us that see the incredible danger civilization is in may be horrified by the general public's lack of knowledge, but as long as the bulk of folks are fat and happy (bread and circuses), the situation is not likely to change
I doubt you'd see many contributions from DPRK civilians, for this reason, but it'd be interesting to see how it'd be handled by Western "authorities".
I'd bet they'd stomp all over anyone doing that.
no problem with bombing the shit out of the norks in general, but HOW DARE we think about assassinating a "leader"
@dwinblood had a good post up on this in the last coupla days
Yes, they'd want to nip it in the bud before we started getting uppity about owning ourselves.
I'll take a look.
thats it in a nutshell
also, I think they think that "sticking by the rules" keeps them off the other teams' hit list
A real sick version of chivalry, where we only throw commoners at each other's commoners. No blue blood spilled.