Unfortunately, everything is joined at the hip. Fractional reserve banking, or more so fictional reserve banking. Money from Bitcoin went in Ethereum and that opened Pandora's box with all the other shitcoin scams. See, if I deployed a smart contract for a new token with a total supply of 1bn, kept a decent amount for myself, and partnered with my scammy frens at the crypto exchange to list the token with a limited circulating supply, I can pamp it by buying a few for say $1 a coin and lure retail on crypto twitter with sockpuppet accounts promoting the scam as something amazing. Idiots start buying and my vaporware token has now got a market cap of billions of dollars. I start cashing out.. It is all hot air, market making (wash trading), social media psy ops... VCs are in on this. 

 That's a great point you bring up nostr:nprofile1qqs8vvjcw2afw84kpxu97853qcnrdpmj5v5427eqaedp7320p95s7nqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgjwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxqgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejqxfldzj, I guess scammers will just keep on scamming for as long as it's possible...MF 

 It is a Pandora's box. Who is human, who isn't. A whole game theory of tokenized voting systems, quadratic voting, futarchy, sybil resistance, malicious actors, power games, and in the end there are always unhappy people. The whole thing would only suck fund money to waste time and money on dead ends. Some larpers pretending to be smart and buillding the future will get rich while kicking the can, without useful results.

Let's try, I will supoort any effort, but I've lived it, and I have a bad aftertaste. 

 I like the way you think, and it sounds like you've had some substantial experiences.

I kind if feel like many of the tools from those ecosystems, like NFTs and DAOs are solutions in search of a problem. They have no clear use cases yet. The proposed use cases rest on invalid assumptions about the ways that we govern our social systems.

I'd be interested to hear more about your perspective.  

 There is information asymmetry, some are better informed, others less. Many collectives have intentional information silos, so those in power can stay in power. Others use radical transparency, which is better, but then everyone has a different skill sets and Dunning-Kruger types start wasting everybody else's time. You don't need democracy and everyone to vote on everything. There are ways to make decentralized yet focused and efficient dev teams, but those are never implemented because from a guy who gets funding and is his own boss, you turn into an equal and judged by others. Peer review is hated by the ego, everybody tries to avoid it. If there is any voting, my number one priority would be complete anonymity, not even commit-reveal schemes. 

 definitely, anonymity in voting is essential, so it needs to be figured out how we can create such anonymous votes. Even in much simpler applications polls are very useful and could easily be integrated into NOSTR. I think thed be particularly interesting for the interoperability of the protocol.

Curious you mention Peer review because I'm in academia now and actually think it would be a really cool use case for nostr: to set up a peer review system.

A required feature would be "reputation", and I think this is something we haven't quite cracked yet. But please correct me if I'm wrong.