_hackers/minds
Cryptographer

Jim Bell

American crypto-anarchist

Life
1958 – present
Born
1958
Nationality
United States

James Dalton Bell is an American crypto-anarchist who created the idea of arranging for anonymously sponsored assassination payments via the Internet, which he called "assassination politics". He was imprisoned on felony charges of tax evasion in 1997. In 2001, Wired called Bell "[o]ne of the Internet's most famous essayists" and "the world's most notorious crypto-convict".

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