The (Rational) Street Performer protocol
The Rational Street Performer Protocol a revision of Bruce Schneier’s original Street Performer protocol designed to make it more beneficial to pay than to freeload and wait for everyone else to pay. It’d be interesting to see a large scale test of this sort of thing; the only co-operative payment scheme I know of was when Stephen King sold The Plant, and it didn’t run quite along Street Performer lines (which might explain why it didn’t work very well).
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