Mr. Shin taking names and kicking ass:
the last few years has just produced more ways to integrate with the old order, to placate them, to adapt to them rather than vice versa. There isn’t much driving at disrupting the old order. The spark seems mostly gone.
One long-forgotten idea: Assassination markets!
Not necessarily to kill someone, but a nice little betting market for someone's death (HASHTAG @mega_dreamer!):
This is obviously a highly unethical, immoral, and wildly dangerous idea. But it’s also a powerful one, and revolutionary. A successful assassination market working at scale would radically alter the calculus of the governing interacting with the governed.
"How different would the world be if leaders had to weigh the risk of inciting an evergrowing pot of money incentivizing their untimely demise if they did something unpopular or detrimental to those they governed?"
Cypherpunks need to dream of true disruption again. People can do all kinds of things if they want to, they just need to imagine them first.
Love to see it.