— Jack, what can you do for money?
— For money? I can do… anything!film “The Man from Boulevard des Capucines”
Here’s your “Ticket to Planet Tranay” today. A smart contract that monitors a hundred major news websites. If on all of them, on a certain day and within a specified timeframe, it gets reported that, for example, “Putin is dead,” the smart contract automatically transfers money to whoever signed up as the executor. The clients are millions of people, each participating in this contract through crowdfunding. The right cryptocurrency is chosen for anonymity. While the amount is being raised, the executors, for whom “laying a roof in the rain” is a profession, effectively participate in a “Dutch auction.” As the fund’s total increases, so does the number of interested parties. This isn’t just about writing petitions “to the village elder.” Sooner or later, someone will come up with a way to implement this idea, right?