Bitcoin, the digital cryptocurrency being anonymous and untraceable has been the preferred choice for doing illegal business online. After, being widely used for all kinds on illegal online trading like drugs, exploits and numerous other black-market services the currency has another taker which will definitely raise many eyebrows and can result in strict governmental actions. A new online service hosted on underground, anonymous Tor network is now being used to offer an crowdfunded bounty killer service. Named "The Assassination Market" the service lets anyone anonymously contribute bitcoins towards a bounty on the head of any government official just like Kickstarter but for political assassinations.

The Kickstarter for political murders is already receiving huge funds and have 7 nominations (nominating someone needs someone to propose a name and pay the 1 Bitcoin fee worth US$766.99) so far. "Ben Shalom Bernanke" the current chairman of Federal Reserve USA tops the chart and has collected maximum bounty worth ฿124.14 or US$95106.76 at today's exchange rate.