
(This is Part 2 of a two-part series. Click here to read Part 1.)
The recent rapid rise in what have been dubbed meme stocks shows how a community can quickly coalesce around an idea and take action, causing massive market effects in ways that would have taken years or decades in prior generations and eras. As the viability of these efforts have proven themselves, this has led to efforts to coalesce around other instruments of value.
For example,