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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 159 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This guy was willing to do it for free. Imagine if there was a bounty.

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Even if he did, any funds would be frozen. A Monero Address would be a better way of receiving money.

Edit: Mind you, I expect him to very soon be arrested, so he wouldn't really have any time to enjoy it.

Edit 2: Look up Jim Bell. He wrote a very popular essay in the 90s.

[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Edit 2: Look up Jim Bell. He wrote a very popular essay in the 90s.

This is one of the things that scares me about most about completely anonymous currencies and networks: untraceable kill orders and, to a lesser extent, unlimited bribery (that already exists in US). Because you know, it opens the most possibilities to people with money. Like billionaires.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

I suspect billionaires and other people of high authority, especially, would be the first ones on the list. But your average everyday person is very unlikely to be on the list because they don't have enough people who hate them.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We need a black market gofundme so we can crowd source hits to keep up.

[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure we would outweigh them - you know the statistics, almost half the wealth (potential kill orders) is held by top 1.1%.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 11 points 1 month ago

Don't get scammed but if he ever needs a legal defense fund, I think the plebs can figure it out.

He did job well, least we can do it pay respects

[–] grue@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

TBF, we don't know that. Might've been a paid hitman.

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago

The professional killer was the one who died.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

According to the media, he made a lot of very amateur mistakes if that's the case. Like leaving a water bottle and granola bar wrappers and being filmed on camera at a Starbucks.

[–] Aztechnology@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Leaving the DNA behind doesn't really identify him if his DNA is not in the system.

But nowadays the odds some relative of yours put theirs up on some family tree site is pretty high so they could narrow the suspect pool quite a bit going that route.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

His DNA doesn't need to be in any system. These days there are professionals that take DNA results and comb through the databases to find close relatives that are in the system. It's how they caught the BTK Killer.

[–] Starrifier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think you're thinking of the Golden State Killer (among many others). BTK was caught through digital forensics, not forensic genealogy.

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Has the Starbucks guy actually been confirmed as the same person? It looked like clearly a different jacket and backpack, I assumed that was either an accomplice or just an unfortunate lookalike, but I suppose he could have changed or it could just be odd lighting tricks.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago

No, not that I'm aware of.

[–] Josey_Wales@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Anything sent like that would be frozen. Monero would be the better option.

[–] boogiebored@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Can we crowdfund this, and provide a crypto bounty as reward for targets, including politicians, in the same way there was a reward for information on the shooter?

This would be to let those who step out of line know how much disdain there is for any of them in particular at any given moment, and the rewards can be split as needed.

The proletariat needs alternative systems of leverage.

This is for my Purge sequel screenplay, of course. One can dream.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bell

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago