Speaking Of Crypto

048. First There Was Wikipedia, Now There’s Everipedia with Larry Sanger

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Larry Sanger is one of the Co-Founders of Wikipedia  He came up with the idea. He named it. And it was his concept to turn wikis into an online encyclopedia that blossomed into what Wikipedia is today. But how do you make Wikipedia better? How about joining the guys who are already doing it! Now Larry works as the Chief Information Officer for Everipedia -- the world’s largest encyclopedia on a blockchain where you get paid to contribute. Some have called it the Fork of Wikipedia or Wikipedia 2.0.  Larry has a PhD in Philosophy from Ohio State University and I was fortunate to meet up with him in person in Cleveland at the Blockland Solutions conference in December. Larry values the accumulation of knowledge as something that helps us make decisions and process events and understandings from the past so we can do things better as we move forward.  And he believes that putting information on a blockchain is a step forward. “The great thing about blockchain is that it makes the network credibly decentralized an