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ACCOUNT
PLAYERS REMAINING: 11267 | PRIZE POOL: $119,170 |
PLAYERS REMAINING: 11267 | PRIZE POOL: $119,170 |
PLAYERS REMAINING: 11267 | PRIZE POOL: $119,170 |
PLAYERS REMAINING: 11267 | PRIZE POOL: $119,170 |
PLAYERS REMAINING: 11267 | PRIZE POOL: $119,170 |
vote
hourly

to ostracize
a player


vote
daily

to elect a player to win

Each hour, the player with the most
VOTES
is
ostracized
The first player to get 100% of
the
votes
in one day gets
Venmo'd the
prize pool

HOW DO I PLAY?
The game starts on Thurs, Jun 27th @ 11:00am. Players can vote hourly to
ostracize
other players and daily to
elect
a winner.
Every hour, the player (or players, if tied) with the most
votes
is ostracized. Ostracized players are eliminated from the game/can no longer
vote.
The first player to get 100% of the
votes
from all remaining players wins the entire prize pool.

HOW DO I GET PAID

IF I WIN?

The prize pool will be Venmo’d to the winner’s Venmo handle. Use a REAL VENMO
USERNAME when registering to play, otherwise you WILL NOT BE PAID OUT if you
win!

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Current prize pool $119170
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Learn the rules

MSCHF Plays Venmo (MPV) derives from ancient Athenian ostracism: once per year
citizens came together and voted to banish one person from the city, on pain of
death, for the next 10 years.

Surviving pottery shards used in these votes bear the names of famous Athenians
- Socrates, and Pericles among them. Ostracism incentivized targeting the famous
- only public figures were likely to receive enough votes from such a procedure.


Re-apply the rules

Ostracism represents a democratic function that has no contemporary equivalent:
a means for the masses to revenge themselves upon an elected official.

We tend to think our voting systems are set in stone, but they are the result of
past iterations, test-server patches on democracy, that have occasionally tried
what seem like bonkers rulesets. Perhaps ostracism, which levels a
(semi)permaban at a limited number of users will someday find a home in
moderation - where potential ban targets are placed in context of the entire
citizenry, prioritizing elimination of the single worst.


Break the rules

To short-circuit unanimous decision-making, bump off the opposition. The extreme
difficulty of the MPV “win” vote moves the action into the “ostracize” vote –
until winning becomes easier, by virtue of having eliminated most of the player
base.

There are, of course, other parallel paths available. For those inclined towards
backdoor deals, secret handshakes, and promises of quid-pro-quo, remember that
Venmo once dreamed of being a social network. Send someone one cent and you can
send a message. Send a message, and perhaps you can make an ally. Make an ally
and perhaps you can game the vote.


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