The human race has an insane appetite for knowledge. We want to know everything about … everything. And nothing illustrates this more than what’s considered the most reliable and beloved source of facts, statistics, and stories about how the world works.

The encyclopedia.

No longer a heavy and cumbersome set of actual books, the encyclopedia has evolved. It is now an online hub — Wikipedia — where an almost overwhelming amount of knowledge is always just a few taps away.

If you want to drill down and get more specific on how much encyclopedic knowledge is out there, consider this: Wikipedia boasts 29 million+ pages. These pages include words, photos, graphs, sounds and video. And they’re changing all the time.

But even an online dictionary must evolve with new technology. And that evolution is Everipedia.

Everipedia is the world’s first peer-to-peer, blockchain encyclopedia. It is seen as Wikipedia’s “expansion pack”, and already has more articles than the popular database.

The backbone of Everipedia is the IQ Network. And it will be used to capture the world.

Here’s how it works. Like Wikipedia, Everipedia is based on community input. It is essentially owned by the community. Posts are created by people just like you and me, who care about building a global database of knowledge based on facts and accuracy.

With Everipedia’s IQ Network, knowledge is rewarded. When users contribute what they know to Everipedia, they pay using an IQ token. If the knowledge they post is true and accepted by the community — and consensus is reached — the contributor is given back their IQ token..and some extra. If the community decides the information is incorrect, the poster loses their token.

Users are also rewarded with IQ tokens for curating content and other tasks, so IQ tokens fuel those community contributions.

To get a solid, expanded grasp of how Everipedia works, see their own post.

But let’s move even beyond your standard, text-based Everipedia post. What about points of interest?

This is where XYO comes in.

The first step in this monumental partnership is working with Everipedia to provide location data to greatly enhance the points of interest (POI) entries. Right now, Everipedia has many POI entries — more than Wikipedia! But they’ll still need more, and these new posts must be accurate.

XYO location data will help Everipedia get there.

Some of you may know Everipedia’s CTO, Larry Sanger, from Spatial. But for those who are just parachuting in here, Everipedia has an enormously talented team, and one of those team members is the co-founder of Wikipedia itself, Larry Sanger.

We look forward to pairing up with Everipedia to improve the world’s peer-to-peer blockchain knowledge base!

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