Bitcoin has long been accused of , but today it's been implicated in a more grisly business: assassination. In Forbes , Andy Greenberg details a site called Assassination Market, which offers up crowdfunded bounties for the murder of public figures. As previously reported in The Daily Dot , the site is primarily motivated by hostility to overreaching government, offering bounties ranging from 40 bitcoin for President Obama to a whopping 124 bitcoin for outgoing Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke. At current bitcoin rates, that would add up to over $70,000.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/18/5117450/bitcoin-powered-assassination-market-targets-obama-bernanke
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