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Re:Introduction to Augur, an open-source, decentralized bett... by CodesInChaos on Monday August 20, 2018 @03:48PM (#17803271)
One possible way to implement this: Have on betting pool per person. When betting cryptographically commit to a time interval for predicted death time. After death bettors have limited time to reveal the time interval they bet on. Split pool among correct bets weighted by 1/interval-length.

Making it easy to hire an assassin anonymously is why I find privacy preserving coins like zcash scary, despite valuing my privacy highly.

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Re:Introduction to Augur, an open-source, decentralized bett... by DennisP on Monday August 20, 2018 @08:24PM (#17805577)
Well crap that does seem to solve the problems I mentioned. I don't think that could be set up on Augur, but it could be implemented as a new contract.
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