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 # Civil
 
 
+## Lore
+
+- the board
+- the podcast
+- the token sale and the crash
+- the surviving newsrooms, eg Colorado Sun and Brick House
+
+## Lessons
+
+**Design a cryptoeconomic protocol around, not against, human decisions and values.** Civil's token-curated registry was not crypto all the way down; it was a prediction market ultimately accountable to the Civil Council, a group of values-centered humans. It is an example of how to use cryptoeconomic systems to amplify, rather than suppress, human values.
+
+**If all else fails, fund public goods.** Civil itself did not succeed long-term, but its investments in newsrooms seeded several important projects that have survived.
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+
 ## Links
 
-* [Website](https://joincivil.com/)
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+* [Website](https://joincivil.com/)
+    * [Archive (May 4, 2018)](https://web.archive.org/web/20180504003801/https://joincivil.com/)
+* Matthew Ingram, "[A Civil primer: The benefits, and pitfalls, of a new media ecosystem](https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/civil.php)," _Columbia Journalism Review_ (August 13, 2018 )