Knowledgecoin: One Pager

The Greatest Question of our Age is, How do I Know What is True?

"Since man is not omniscient or infallible, you have to

discover what you can claim as knowledge and how

to prove the validity of your conclusions.” – Ayn Rand

Background:

We are living in a misinformation age. The information age was supposed to provide simple, free, and easy access to more knowledge than any generation before us. In actuality, the more information we have, the less we all seem to know. With so much conflicting information, how is one to know what is true or false, fact or fiction, reality or opinion?

Problem:

The greatest enemy of truth is not ignorance, but is instead the current system that provides censored, biased, phony information while maintaining the illusion that it is offering true facts.

A major part of this problem is the centralized method most people use to consume news and information.

• Big Tech The major tech companies of Silicon Valley coordinate to censor political speech, skew search results, de-platform individuals, and sabotage new businesses that are a threat to the interests of any member of their cartel.

• Media The Media has betrayed their charge. Trust in the media is at all-time lows – and for good reason. Billionaires now run the top news organizations to further their agendas. Major news has always had a slant and questionable motives when reporting, but now it has become worse: gone are the days of objective facts, replaced by narrative-driven propaganda pushing specific viewpoints with few mainstream counter viewpoints to balance the narrative.

• Academia The University used to produce students adept at reason and critical thinking. They now teach that objective truth does not exist and there is no actual “truth”, only personal narratives, shifting points of view, and ideological agendas. When the Government funds studies seeking pre-determined conclusions and selects researchers with sympathetic political and social agendas, it distorts the validity of any academic conclusions.

• Government: Trust in government as a source of truth, justice, and fairness was never high. But now, in the United States, previously trusted institutions such as the F.B.I. and the Justice Department are increasingly seen as untrustworthy, powerful, partisan organizations designed to protect the political and cultural elite, rather than neutral institutions looking out for honest citizens.

When Big Tech partners with media, academia, and government to control knowledge, this partnership creates a powerful barrier to knowledge that no individual can effectively overcome.

This unholy alliance betrays the dream of open access to knowledge on the internet and deliberately blockades the online pipeline that has become everyone’s primary source of information.

The need for a solution to break down these artificial barriers to knowledge could not be greater. Throughout history, the smallest minority on earth – the individual – has been the happiest, the freest, and the most prosperous when full access to knowledge was available to all.

Indeed, reliable access to open knowledge is an absolute requirement for a free, fair, and functioning democratic society. This requirement is especially vital when valid knowledge is being actively suppressed by powerful interests.

Solution:

Knowledgecoin is our blockchain solution to this seemingly intractable set of problems. For the first time, humanity has the power to wrest back knowledge from the grip of the powerful – even elites cannot edit a blockchain solution.

Unlike the hollow promises of Silicon Valley, Knowledgecoin represents a true decentralized utility that offers immutable, validated knowledge available to all people.