Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger joins Everipedia, site seeking to become better version of online encyclopedia by using blockchain solutions

Briefing

December 14, 2017

Briefing	Everipedia – Joint venture-backed startup’s site seeking to become better version of Wikipedia by creating decentralized blockchain-based encyclopedia, with help of Wikipedia’s co-founder Dr. Larry Sanger Blockchain Platform – Everipedia will use smart contracts to create censor-proof system of editing and storing articles, as well as incentivizing contributors with crypto tokens, called IQ tokens Additional Benefits – Include incentivizing higher quality peer-to-peer resource through monetary value, decreased server costs due to decentralization, as well as being uncensorable Expected Outcome – Company expects blockchain solution to be implemented by September 2018
Accelerator	Web3 Ecosystems, Tokens and Consensus Mechanisms
Business Model and Practices Business Model and Practices	New Revenue Models
Sector	Media and Entertainment
Organization	Wikipedia
Source	Rubin, P., "The Wikipedia competitor that's harnessing blockchain for epistemological supremacy", Wired, https://www.wired.com/; del Castillo, M., "Encyclopedia Blockchainica: Wikipedia co-founder to disrupt his own creation", CoinDesk, http://www.coindesk.com/; AcceleratingBiz analysis
Original Publication Date	December 6, 2017

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