Bitcoin is good, Ethereum is nice, but the future of a free humanity depends on a blockchain of validated knowledge
The future of freedom is blockchain
In industry after industry, traditional centralized services are being replaced with decentralized solutions.
Blockchain efforts (like Bitcoin and Ethereum) are now regularly trusted to conduct tens of billions of dollars in transactions, thus proving out crypto-ledgers as a viable technology.
Over the past ten years, blockchain crypto-ledger technology has been used to successfully decentralize complex systems in the fields of money, banking, finance, and insurance.
And while blockchain stores “fast facts” just fine, very few of the current market offerings help users to understand the meaning behind those facts.
With misinformation, propaganda and lies at all time highs, humanity faces a critical question: can blockchain help us validate for ourselves what is true?
Put another way, the crypto marketplace is full of products but none adequately leverage a decentralized, trustless blockchain to harness the most valuable asset known to mankind: Knowledge.
Think of Bitcoin as a protocol to adjudicate two narrow truth claims
What can the success of Bitcoin teach us about validating knowledge?
As it turns out, quite a bit.
The Bitcoin protocol is designed to adjudicate, in a decentralized way, the following two truth claims:
- There is enough money in my account to pay you.
- I paid you, like I claim I did.
Despite every criminal enterprise and rogue government attempting to undermine these truth claims, the Bitcoin protocol has proven remarkably robust at validating these claims.
Think of Ethereum as a protocol to adjudicate a slightly bigger set of truth claims.
So what of the much lauded “smart contract” platform Ethereum? It turns out that Ethereum shows us how decentralization can adjudicate a much broader set of truth claims.
After all, a “smart contract” is just logic in code that adjusts in pre-arranged ways to changing parameters. For instance, I owe you 10 ETH… unless it is December 1st and then I owe you 15 ETH.
So the Ethereum protocol is designed to adjudicate, in a decentralized way, the following array of truth claims:
- There is enough money in my account to pay you.
- I paid you, like I claim I did.
- Pre-arranged X action occurred and therefore pre-arranged Y result is a consequence
Despite every criminal enterprise and rogue government attempting to undermine these truth claims, the Ethereum protocol has proven remarkably robust at adjudicating this slightly broader set of truth claims.
The future of blockchain, the future of the internet, and the future of humanity hinges on the ability to adjudicate ALL truth claims.
This brings us back to our original question: how can blockchain help people to validate for themselves what is True?!
Well, as we can see, blockchain protocols have proven to be remarkably good at adjudicating truth claims.
The key is to expand the blockchain protocol to be able to encompass more than what Bitcoin or Ethereum has previously offered. Rather, we must be able to adjudicate any claim.
The stakes are high
In the age of misinformation in which we live, nothing less than the future of humanity is at stake over the ability to validate what is true.
Lofty dreams like Web 3.0 are dead in the water without the ability to adjudicate meaning from the jumbled word salad that is the world wide web.
Whatsmore, humans are forever destined to be manipulated by cynical elites unless they can figure out a way to store, access and validate knowledge in a manner that does not depend upon centralized (and therefore manipulated) sources.
Knowledgecoin is the Solution
Just as Bitcoin eliminates corrupt gatekeepers from the money supply, and Ethereum eliminates corrupt gatekeepers from online contracts, so too will Knowledgecoin eliminate the corrupt gatekeepers of centralized knowledge.
The future of humanity rests on the question of how it will validate its knowledge and agree on what is true.
Decentralize the validation of your knowledge. The civilization you save, may be your own.
About the Authors:
Mark Gleason: Mark Gleason is a Chief Enterprise Architect, Venture Capitalist, and Board Member at Knowledgecoin.io.
Rick Repetti: Professor of Philosophy at CUNY, Vice President at the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (APPA), and Chief Philosophy Officer at Knowledgecoin.io.
