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by Kubuxu 27 days ago
> So you read an article "China disappears random person" and then at the end you click a button and bet whether that person is alive or dead or whatever.

Congratulations, you just created a murder market. Create “Is person X dead?”, and put a large limit order buying No. Anyone with means can capitalise on it by fulfilling the physical obligation of the market and buying up the limit order. Don’t create the murder market.

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It would be a stupid thing to do given the trail, bit it gives the person ordering it sort of plausible deniability.

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The state can make it unprofitable to murder. Meaning that the existence of such a market is not a source of potential profit.