What's up amigos y amigas! Here's a little knowledge drop for ya today.
Have you heard abt Everipedia? It is a decentralized Wikipedia that is being built on the EOS blockchain. They are not doing an ICO nor are they selling any of their tokens, called "IQ tokens". Infact, 100% of the IQ tokens will be airdropped on to the genesis block of EOS which means that if you own EOS tokens (and have registered them) then you will receive IQ tokens for free!
Check out this announcement: https://www.blockchainbeach.com/everipedia-token-delivery-june-airdrop-date/
It looks like the Everipedia team will hold off on the airdrop until the launch of the EOS blockchain.
Here's a very interesting quote from the article:
The most intriguing part of Everipedia, though, is its plans to distribute tokens that will permit people to edit entries on the site. In practice, this means contributors will post tokens along with proposed edits—if the community approves the edits, they get to keep their token and also earn a little more. If the edit is deemed wrong or unhelpful, the would-be editors lose their token.
Giving Everipedia contributors a financial stake in the project is intended to encourage quality contributions, and to discourage the partisan gamesmanship that can sometimes arise on the all-volunteer Wikipedia.
I think this is revolutionary. Rather than trusting an all-voluntary userbase to manage the content for accuracy, now you can have people, basically, putting their money where their opinions are. If you think something is incorrect in an Everipedia page (maybe a topic like "anarchy") and is currently being mis-represented, then you can submit some of your tokens towards getting it corrected. If your changes are accepted, then you are repaid your initial tokens as well as receive a reward from the blockchain inflation (simliar to how Steem pays out content creators). Now, I have no clue how the "community approves" these changes or if there's a time limit on said changes.
Another interest part of the same article is the following:
In addition, Kazemian confirmed that his team will be working with Block.one CTO Dan Larimer on the token economics for Everipedia later this month. This will allow Larimer’s ideas and suggestions, including improvements over blogging and social networking website Steemit, to be included Everipedia’s forthcoming whitepaper.
Whoa....this is big. @Dan Larimer is working directly with the Everipedia team to help them create the token econoimcs and incentive structure to facilitate a healthy community. Apparently Dan has thought about the issues with Steem currently and believes that he has solutions to make things more in line with his original vision. One thing is for sure, you don't want whales being able to influence the next-gen, online encyclopedia like they can currently direct topics and content on Steem.
Check out the initial tweet announcing the airdrop:
https://twitter.com/eos_io/status/952117859215319040?lang=en
- eos_io
Here's the original announcement of the airdrop by the Everipedia team:
And here's another Youtube video on Everipedia.
I'll leave you with this....
I have an "inside source" that filled me in on something. The Block.one (EOS.io) team has raised so much money in their year-long ICO that they are going to companies and offering to buy a portion of their ICO tokens (or all of them in the case of Everipedia) in order to airdrop them on the genesis block of EOS. This incentivizes people to buy EOS tokens now in hopes that the Block.one team is successful, convinces other teams to build on EOS and air drop their tokens to the early adopters. Everipedia may have been the first to airdrop like this, but they won't be the last.
Ok, hope this helps and let me know in the comments what you think about EOS and Everipedia!
In Liberty,
Ashe
