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Jeff interviews crypto-anarchist Jim Bell, author of the essay Assassination Politics in 1995, topics include: early computing and internet, bulletin boards, the cypher punks, solving David Friedman’s ‘hard problem’, Bitcoin makes assassination politics possible, how it would work, the societal implications, practical anarchy, smart contracts, Ethereum and Augur, assassination lists and the non aggression principle, liable to evolve into a dispute resolution system that would replace the justice and military systems, reversing the ever increasing regulatory burden, putting an end to war.
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