The Broken Scoreboard
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Why money is broken, what fixes it, and how the Alignment Economy compares to every alternative we could find.
What Is the Alignment Economy?
The Alignment Economy is a blockchain currency where every verified human receives 1,440 points a day, one per minute. Here is how it works and why.
The Two Bitcoin Paradoxes
Bitcoin proved decentralized money works, then two paradoxes stopped it from becoming money people spend: first-mover advantage and the deflation trap.
Proof of Human: Score the Account, Not the Points
How the Alignment Economy verifies that every account is one real human: a percent-human score that multiplies purchasing power, judged by miners, enforced by courts.
Why Money Needs an Expiration Date
In the Alignment Economy, daily points expire at midnight if unspent. Expiring money sounds crazy and solves three problems at once. It has also worked before.
Alignment Economy vs Worldcoin: Two Answers to the Same Question
Worldcoin and the Alignment Economy both start from the same premise: in an AI world, money must know who is human. They diverge on everything after that.
Alignment Economy vs GoodDollar: Charity Rails or a New Scoreboard?
GoodDollar delivers a small daily digital UBI funded by donor yield. The Alignment Economy issues the monetary base itself. The difference is where value comes from.
Alignment Economy vs Circles: The Fungibility Lesson
Circles gives every person their own personal currency, valued through trust paths. The Alignment Economy gives everyone the same currency. That difference decides whether money works.
Is the Alignment Economy a UBI?
No, though it rhymes. UBI redistributes existing money through a government. The Alignment Economy issues new money at the protocol level. Nothing is taxed, no one signs the checks.
Why Nobody Spends Bitcoin
Spending bitcoin has been the worst financial decision available for fifteen years, and everyone knows the pizza story that proves it. That is a fatal flaw in a currency.
AI Doesn't Break the Economy. It Exposes It.
The fear is that AI takes the jobs. The real problem is older: our money only counts labor the market can price, and AI is removing exactly that.
Money Never Paid Your Mom
Raising a child is the most valuable work most humans ever do. GDP counts it as zero. The problem isn't that we don't value mothers. It's that our money can't see them.
Why the Dollar Buys Less Every Year
Because it's designed to. Two percent inflation is the target, not the accident. Here's who benefits, who pays, and why the slow leak feels like weather.
What Is a Rebasing Currency?
A rebasing currency algorithmically adjusts everyone's balance to hit a target, preserving each holder's share. Ampleforth used it to chase a price. The Alignment Economy uses it to hold purchasing power still.
The Model T of Money
The car didn't beat the horse overnight. Early versions were toys for the rich, until the Model T made driving ordinary. Money is still waiting for its Model T.
The Bridge
The ten-thousand-year story of how taking became invisible, and the door out. The story behind the Alignment Economy.