[P2P-F] Fwd: FW: How Does Civil Work?

24 Mar 2018

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From: Roland Vanderbeke <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 2:48 PM
Subject: FW: How Does Civil Work?
To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]>

*Van:* Roland Vanderbeke [mailto:[email protected]]
*Verzonden:* vrijdag 23 maart 2018 15:08
*Aan:* [email protected]
*Onderwerp:* FW: How Does Civil Work?

Ter info toepassing blockchain in journalisme.

Gr.rollie

*Van:* Christine from Civil [mailto:christine=joincivil.
[email protected] <[email protected]>]
*Namens *Christine from Civil
*Verzonden:* donderdag 22 maart 2018 19:02
*Aan:* [email protected]
*Onderwerp:* How Does Civil Work?

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Unless you're a developer or cryptocurrency enthusiast, it's safe to assume
that “Ethereum-based, decentralized marketplace for sustainable journalism”
doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

While there's certainly a lot that goes into building a blockchain-based
ecosystem model, the end user experience on Civil
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will be extremely intuitive and straightforward. Readers will be able to
access content, and support it in any currency they choose. Journalists
will be able to seamlessly write content to the Ethereum blockchain.

So, what makes us unique? Ethereum unlocks two key business features for
journalists:

   - *Self-governance*: the ability to incentivize good content and make it
   prohibitively expensive for trolls, spam and misinformation to persist on
   the platform.
   - *Permanence: *articles published on Ethereum are virtually impossible
   to delete, as they live in a distributed ledger that runs across hundreds
   of thousands of independent computers.

For more on how this model works, we've outlined a concept known as “The
Waterline”.
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Think Wikipedia meets Woodward and Bernstein — all powered by a robust,
underlying economy of token holders incentivized to promote good content
and discourage bad actors.

Introducing a new journalism funding model is an ambitious problem to try
to solve — and also an incredibly important one. To help realize our
vision, we've built a core team
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of top blockchain engineering and design talent, as well as former
journalists and marketers to ensure we always maintain a “journalism first”
approach. We've also partnered with some of the brightest minds from the
blockchain, journalism and legal worlds to ensure we've got the support
needed to do something on such a grand scale.

*Blockchain*

*Civil is backed by ConsenSys
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the world's largest Ethereum venture studio — and founded by Joseph Lubin,
also an Ethereum co-founder. Our engineering team has worked extremely
closely with ConsenSys to develop a token-based system for self-governance
that rewards good content, and introduces incentives to keep lower quality
content (including spam and deliberate misinformation) out of Civil's
marketplace. We've also partnered with CoinFund
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a leading cryptoasset advisor, on our token design.*

*Journalism*

*Civil has a close partnership with Old Town Media
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a media advisory firm founded by ex-POLITICO editors. They've ensured we
apply a journalist's mindset to every business decision we make from day
one. They've also been instrumental helping to recruit Civil's “First
Fleet” of journalists and ensuring that we have a wealth of quality content
to publish on day one.*

The convergence of blockchain and journalism offers tremendous potential
for introducing an innovative, new funding model. Interested citizens can
not only curate good content, but be economically rewarded for it — and for
identifying and rejecting bad content. This lends to a model that will
yield a trusted marketplace for quality journalism, and one which is
prohibitively difficult for bad actors to penetrate.

We're excited for what's to come, but we won't be able do it alone. We want
to hear from you.

   - Are you a developer? Take a look at our GitHub page
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   Dig in, and let us know what you think.
   - Have an idea for a Newsroom you'd like to see formed? Let us know!
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