Meaning of assassination marketplace | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A darknet market where a hitman can be hired.
   Internet
2. A darknet website where one can bet on the date of death of an individual.
   Internet

Examples

“Over the following months, Yura had instructed his detail of freelancers to create websites peddling fake news about Ormsby’s and Monteiro’s involvement in the assassination marketplace. They were WordPress blogs, not excessively sophisticated, but strong on SEO. Some had seemingly caught the NCA’s eye: the application for the warrant to search Monteiro’s flat referenced one of these blogs as evidence.”

“A dark web ‘assassination marketplace’ was used to order a hit on the TV chef Ainsley Harriott, it has emerged.”

“At the center of the controversy is Augur, an app built to prevent censorship and allow people to create prediction markets. The site's FAQs say this: "Augur is a protocol, freely available for anyone to use however they please." Users are doing exactly that. Some are predicting whether real people will live or die and for how long. And they're betting cryptocurrency on it. It has been dubbed the assassination marketplace.”

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