What is Quant?
Quant is a digital token that represent human productivity. The total number of Quant that can be mined is 223.3 Trillion corresponding to the approximate dollar value of outstanding human productivity existing on December 15, 2015. This is the amount of future productivity that everyone in the world has committed to each other in the form of global debt obligations.
The flaw
What people may not fully understand is that human productivity is not stored in banks, corporate boardrooms, and governments – these institutions only maintain and control the ledger of future productivity, they are not the actual source of the productivity.
Rather, human productivity is stored and sourced in the combined education, experiences, talents, skills, health, community, passions, professions, careers, as well as works of engineering, artistic expression, and scientific achievements of humans. These are the actual stores and sources of human productivity.
Unfortunately for most people, it is very hard to see this distinction without a proper reference. Introducing Quant provides that reference unit of account.
Fixing the Flaw
Curiosumé represents a person’s talents, interests, and skills (i.e., future productivity) in a form of cryptography. In essence, fabricating smart keys that can open and close social contracts on blockchain. As a result, knowledge assets may become visible to an accounting system under the explicit control of the owner. Once built, Curiosumé will mine Quant from the “proofs-of-work” performed by real people solving real puzzles that maintain a real network. The Network will be able to allocate Quant using algorithms measuring fault tolerant network dynamics, thereby decentralizing production.
Building Curiosumé
The Ingenesist Project (TIP) has created the Quant Token on the Bitshares Blockchain. TIP has issued to itself Q10,000,000 to be allocated to the development of Curiosumé. All participants in the initial phase will be given a donation of Q100 per hour for helping build and disseminate Curiosumé to the public domain. Future levels, if founded, will re-value the earlier round on a ratio of 10:1
Introducing Quant as the internal token of the Curiosumé network will allow people to articulate knowledge assets in true decentralized corporations.
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Disclaimer: Quant is not a currency nor is it meant to represent value or security in any entity. Quant is akin to a game token where the challenge is to solve a puzzle to a public domain ledger. There will be leaderboards, level-ups, and player interaction similar to any role-play game. Quant may be sourced and sunk only within the intended open-source game that it portrays. The whole “Global Debt” thing is part of the backstory, not some sort of political aspiration or commentary. C’mon, this is supposed to be fun.
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