Why? This is the kind of person who would be running them.

Yes, murder is the correct solution to situations that make you mad. This cannot fail to go well for absolutely everyone.

If you trust in the feasibility of anonymous currency and anonymous internet hosting/browsing (we are close to both already via Tor and Bitcoin/blind mixes), then get ready for a world with assassination markets. It really doesn't matter what you think about it.

I see a number of advantages to de facto anarchy, Hunter Moore getting offed is only one.

You're so cyberpunk! You think the world wouldn't react to an assassination market? You think the internet wouldn't be changed to disallow such a thing? Think again.

No, I don't think anyone will be able to stop the proliferation of anonymous networks and currencies.

I think there will be negatives in that world too. The whole thing is too big for me to even reflect on. I'm not a cyberpunk.

Certainly not that fact that they are unstable and large institutions with real money would not back them?

"An armed society is a polite society." Not wisdom I personally agree with, but I'm kind of surprised to see HN dissent from the ideals of one of the patron saints of American libertarianism!

Well then libertarians should stop complaining about the militarization of our police forces, since they're clearly just fighting kindness with kindness.

I should make it clear that I'm surprised, but also very glad that it has not happened!