From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 15:25:19 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: Assassination Politics--isn't it gambling?
Message-ID: <m0tkPbC-00093KC@pacifier.com>
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At 06:00 PM 2/6/96 PST, banelaw@med.com wrote:
>Jim: as to "Assassination Politics."  Isn't the structure you describe
>gambling?  Placing money on a prediction, with the correct predictor
>winning? 

I guess that depends on the laws, doesn't it? <G>   Seriously, though, since 
all the participants are anonymous, and it can all be done from overseas...

Somehow, though, I think politicians will take little solace from knowing 
that they are protected from death only by laws against gambling.

> And if so, isn't it illegal if done over the wires, i.e., federal
>commerce?  I'm not looking for a way to declare your scheme illegal, I'm
>just pointing out that there are other angles, especially if done over the
>wires.

I'd sure like to read a serious legal analysis of all this.  Maybe all the 
lawyers are too terrified to respond.


> I guess you could move the structure off shore--pity the poor country
>hosting such an entity!  If you were at all succesfull, the server accepting
>digital cash would be moving from place to place--remember pirate radio?

Presumably, the digital cash could be encrypted with the organization's 
private key, and published (anonymously) on a USENET area, in a way which is 
untraceable and unidentifiable.

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com

Klaatu Burada Nikto

Something is going to happen.   Something.......Wonderful!

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