Konsensus Review

Who we are

Bitcoin is a difficult idea to understand and yet so fundamental for our future as humankind. This is why many activist groups have taken it upon themselves to help propagate vital information about bitcoin, this new tool for financial sovereignty. We decided to follow suit in our own way and started localizing great bitcoin content first in Finnish and then expanding to other languages. The demand is clearly there.

Konsensus Network is a privately owned bitcoin-only company that operates as a hub between authors, license holders, translators, and distribution and production channels. The main focus of the company is to localize and distribute important literature about bitcoin, Austrian economics, and sovereignty.

A Starfish Organization

Konsensus Network is a starfish organization, but what does it mean? Roughly, you could call it a light entrepreneurial enterprise where each participant contributes work and reaps rewards according to their specialization. For example, as the CEO, my job is to contract new titles to be translated and distributed, organize and schedule new releases, build and fund the infrastructure for printing and delivering the work for the rest of the organization. I also do the typesetting and graphic design for our titles.

Then we have the authors that provide the backbone to our operation. Their original work gets dissected by our translation teams into suitable pieces. Then the teams incorporate the work they choose into their schedule according to their preference, from raw translation to proofreading to editing, after which the translated work lands on my table for publication.

And of course, we have a support network comprising of customer service, administration, and compliance specialists. Everyone is working on “sweat equity” for a common, individually important goal of vital information distribution.

We have around 50 volunteers working on our projects at the moment and we are expanding our library of localized titles on a monthly basis. The growth since we started in 2019 with only one title has been staggering and we now publish more than ten titles across over five languages and we have at least double that in the works. We have been increasing our reach by an order of magnitude every year which makes me humble and proud at the same time.

The key to making such a large-scale knowledge distribution operation viable is that no one gets paid for their work upfront but as we decentralize the work and responsibilities, we also decentralize the rewards. Low time preference is paramount and for bitcoiners, it comes naturally. When I talk about volunteers I don’t mean they don’t get paid, just that the payoff might or might not happen according to the profits we might make on any given title. The whole thesis I first started this company on, was that as the fiat valuation of bitcoin ticks up, so does the demand for bitcoin literature.

It is a great honor to be a part of this experiment in self-sovereign publishing. What a time to be alive. Want to contribute and earn?

Contribute to Konsensus Network

We are always looking for contributors who want to help out translating bitcoin knowledge to new languages. Learn about our process and get in touch if you are interested.