Your paper on criminal contracts

[jim bell]

Dear Professors Juels (http://www.arijuels.com/) and Shi (runt...@gmail.com), 
and Ahmed Kosba  ako...@cs.umd.edu :    I've found a reference to your recent 
paper, http://www.initc3.org/publications.html.  "The Ring of Gyges: Using 
Smart Contracts for Crime."   Perhaps you are not aware, but 20 years ago 
(1995-6) I wrote an essay on a very similar subject.  I called it 
"Assassination Politics".  cryptome.org/ap.htm .                 Jim Bell