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I first read Assassination Politics more than a decade ago, as documented on my own Web page, and from my Web page the link I have there is still a working link:
http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/jimbellap.htm
I just stumbled on a YouTube presentation by Jim Bell, the author of Assassination Politics, as he eventually made his way out of prison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcJdvQvzlNU
According to Jim Bell the first time someone announced the idea coincided with the sudden tripling of Bitcoin price.
I follow this idea (not a new idea by the way) and so I saw the Forbes Article mentioned in the Jim Bell YouTube video above:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/11/18/meet-the-assassination-market-creator-whos-crowdfunding-murder-with-bitcoins/#31eb3d903d9b
The date on that article is Nov 18, 2013, 08:30am.
The Jim Bell Project is here:
https://jimbellproject.org/press-release-hackers-congress-paralel-polis-oct-7-2017/
The idea is simple, it is based upon this:
"The king, so far from being invested with arbitrary power, was only considered as the first among the citizens; his authority depended more on his personal qualities than on his station; he was even so far on a level with the people, that a stated price was fixed for his head, and a legal fine was levied upon his murderer, which though proportionate to his station, and superior to that paid for the life of a subject, was a sensible mark of his subordination to the community." - 1 Hume, Appendix, l." (Trial by Jury, Lysander Spooner, 1852)
Anonymity for each individual is one thing, but group anonymity is altogether more difficult to maintain, along the lines of a chain being only as strong as the weakest link.
For those who care not to peruse the AP information, I will quote a sound bite:
"Last month I received an encrypted email from someone calling himself by the pseudonym Kuwabatake Sanjuro, who pointed me towards his recent creation: The website Assassination Market, a crowdfunding service that lets anyone anonymously contribute bitcoins towards a bounty on the head of any government official--a kind of Kickstarter for political assassinations. According to Assassination Market's rules, if someone on its hit list is killed--and yes, Sanjuro hopes that many targets will be--any hitman who can prove he or she was responsible receives the collected funds." Forbes