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When you have to put "assassination market" in quotes because you know that's not what it is. By pure coincidence the journalist finds a "new market" where a whole _single person_ is betting on whether DJT will survive 2018. Truely groundbreaking, shocking.

Besides being absolutely nothing new; The realer versions of this have existed on the deep web for over 5 years where people could bet with BTC (assmkedzgorodn7o).

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So because that’s not strictly what it’s called, it can’t be used for that. You can’t be that naive.

What your parent is trying to say is that this is not yet a real problem. It is a "market" of one person.

Maybe Augur could potentially be used this way. It is not currently being used this way. This article is trying very hard to rile you up about these dangerous assassination markets but is pretty dishonest about the fact that it's talking about a possibility, not a reality.

It's also not like Augur has suddenly made assassination markets possible, they already exist and the world has failed to come to an end because of it.

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