> Have a time period where people can throw in their names for consideration, and a randomly-ordered list is generated. You go down the list until you reach a p

> Have a time period where people can throw in their names for consideration, and a randomly-ordered list is generated. You go down the list until you reach a person who can put down the deposit. A lottery, essentially. Stocks should be traded this way, too. Having an arms race for fiber latency makes a mockery of the idea that they are for efficient allocation of capital. Queue up all the trades requested in each second/minute, then execute them in random order.