I'm getting a little tired of every (justifiably!) angry group of people being called a "lynch mob" by default on the internet.

You might want to wait for something resembling actual violence before applying such an ugly characterization. A bunch of people saying mean things is not a "lynch mob".

There are literally dozens of people on reddit's /r/bitcoin right now casually discussing contract killings, with various shades of joking (from "kinda" to "not at all").

I'm not being hyperbolic.

Isn't that the kind of shit bitcoin was made for? Drugs/contract killings in the "deep web"? Would not surprise me at all if some of those guys are serious, especially if they just lost their life savings.

When the speaker exists as a virtual office in another country.

It reminds me of something out of Heinlein's Friday.