Assassination market

Because the payoff is for accurately picking the date rather than performing the assassination, it is substantially more difficult to assign criminal liability.

The concept and its potential effects are also referred to as assassination politics, a term popularized by Jim Bell in his 1995–96 essay of the same name.

[3][4] Early in part 1, Jim Bell describes the idea as:[5] The organization set up to manage such a system could, presumably, make up a list of people who had seriously violated the NAP (Non-aggression Principle), but who would not see justice in our courts due to the fact that their actions were done at the behest of the government.

"Guessers" would formulate their "guess" into a file, encrypt it with the organization's public key, then transmit it to the organization, possibly using methods as untraceable as putting a floppy disk in an envelope and tossing it into a mailbox, but more likely either a cascade of encrypted anonymous remailers, or possibly public-access Internet locations, such as terminals at a local library, etc.

Carl Johnson's attempt to popularise the concept of assassination politics appeared to rely on the earlier version.