/biz/ - Business & Finance

> A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy.

By now, most of you must have heared about Augur, fewer will understand Augur's importance. Even fewer, the reason why Augur has the capacity to bring down Crypto as a whole. Bitcoin and crypto in general has already resisted many attacks, and it seems like governments are bowing down in our favor. Anonimity and Monero will forever be a thorn in the governments eye, but nothing the government can do anything about.

Enter Augur: A platform consisting of 100+ contracts on the Ethereum network (the most complex contract to date), which in its current stage cannot be taken down, neither censored. It is debatable whether Augur will ever reach it's full whitepaper potential of becoming "decentralized financial system". But what has been apparent even before any dev wrote a single line of code; a decentralized prediction market in the likes of Augur will be host to succesful assination markets. It was predicted in the early to mid 90's.

> https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html

And there is a 10 part essay on "Assination Politics"

> http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/jimbellap.htm

And as of last week: Trump, Bezos, Buffet, Obama, Musk, Hillary and many others have been targeted. This is something which cannot be ignored; however, but there is nothing that can be done about it. They may arrest all devs, throw them in jail for 50 years. But if there is any profit to be made Augur will be forked by some anonymous dev team, because the fundamentals have already been laid. And Cypherpunks and Crypto-anarchists have been waiting for decades for a chance to see a prediction market like this work out. Some bumpy road ahead of us anons.

PS. As I don't want to be v&, let the record show that I neither condone or am encouraging anyone to participate in these assassination markets.