After Bitcoin forked, and remains in tatters, it is now blockchain technology that ignites visions of de-regulated and decentralized organization, all the while it is simultaneously being sanitized by commercial banks. Meanwhile the sharing and “service” economy lost its innocuous veneer and streaming services have failed and continue to fold the music industry. Despite the escalation of crowd-funding into crowd-equity and platform co-operatives, artists and designers struggle to financially support themselves. Meanwhile, the financial mediators of the previous centuries continue to drag themselves onward into global debt.