# The Alignment Economy

> The Alignment Economy is a nonprofit blockchain protocol where the base unit of currency is human attention. Every verified person receives 1,440 points per day (one for each minute). It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with no token sale and no equity investors. The mission is three words: make money human.

## Core Mechanisms
- Daily Allocation: every verified human receives 1,440 Active points per day, solving Bitcoin's first-mover advantage problem
- Daily Expiry: unspent Active points burn at midnight, forcing circulation and solving the cold-start problem
- Rebasing: Earned balances adjust daily so total supply stays at 525,600 points per participant, solving inflation and deflation simultaneously
- Proof-of-Human Verification: a percent-human score (0-100%) multiplies purchasing power. Miners verify accounts using flexible evidence; 100% reachable through social vouching alone
- Supportive Points (144/day): flow to durable goods in active use, rewarding durability over planned obsolescence
- Ambient Points (14.4/day): flow to physical spaces a person occupies, replacing taxation with presence-based funding

## Key Parameters
- Constitutional constant k = 365 days (one-year rebase target)
- Per-person target Earned balance: 525,600 points (minutes in a year)
- Four point types: Active (1,440/day, expires), Supportive (144/day), Ambient (14.4/day), Earned (persistent, rebased)
- Daily cycle: 3:59 AM EST expire + rebase, 4:00 AM EST mint
- Consensus: Tendermint-style BFT with ML-DSA-65 post-quantum signatures

## Pages
- Website: https://alignmenteconomy.org
- White Paper: https://alignmenteconomy.org/white-paper
- About: https://alignmenteconomy.org/about
- Get Involved: https://alignmenteconomy.org/get-involved
- Fund: https://alignmenteconomy.org/fund
- Interactive Demo: https://alignmenteconomy.org/demo
- Blog: https://alignmenteconomy.org/blog

## Blog Articles

### How It Works (Canonical)
- What Is the Alignment Economy?: https://alignmenteconomy.org/blog/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: https://alignmenteconomy.org/blog/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: https://alignmenteconomy.org/blog/proof-of-human-score-the-account
  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: https://alignmenteconomy.org/blog/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.

### Comparisons
- Alignment Economy vs Worldcoin: https://alignmenteconomy.org/blog/alignment-economy-vs-worldcoin
  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: https://alignmenteconomy.org/blog/alignment-economy-vs-gooddollar
  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: https://alignmenteconomy.org/blog/alignment-economy-vs-circles
  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?: https://alignmenteconomy.org/blog/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.

### The Problem
- Why Nobody Spends Bitcoin: https://alignmenteconomy.org/blog/why-nobody-spends-bitcoin
  Spending bitcoin has been the worst financial decision available for fifteen years. That is a fatal flaw in a currency.
- AI Doesn't Break the Economy, It Exposes It: https://alignmenteconomy.org/blog/ai-doesnt-break-the-economy
  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: https://alignmenteconomy.org/blog/money-never-paid-your-mom
  Raising a child is the most valuable work most humans ever do. GDP counts it as zero. The problem is not that we don't value mothers. It is that our money can't see them.
- Why the Dollar Buys Less Every Year: https://alignmenteconomy.org/blog/why-the-dollar-buys-less
  Because it is designed to. Two percent inflation is the target, not the accident. Here is who benefits, who pays, and why the slow leak feels like weather.
- What Is a Rebasing Currency?: https://alignmenteconomy.org/blog/what-is-a-rebasing-currency
  A rebasing currency algorithmically adjusts everyone's balance to hit a target, preserving each holder's share. The Alignment Economy uses it to hold purchasing power still.

### Vision
- The Model T of Money: https://alignmenteconomy.org/blog/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 (Short Story): https://alignmenteconomy.org/blog/the-bridge
  The ten-thousand-year story of how taking became invisible, and the door out. The story behind the Alignment Economy.

## Founder
Matt McCormick, Founder & Executive Director
BS Entrepreneurship (Miami University), MBA (UMass Amherst), PMP

## External Profiles
- Source Code: https://github.com/mattfmccormick/alignment-economy-code
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAlignmentEconomy
- Candid (501c3 verification): https://app.candid.org/profile/16623357/the-alignment-economy-foundation-42-1933602