Here’s a thought experiment worth sitting with. You ask ChatGPT to explain how a liquidity pool works, or who Satoshi Nakamoto is, or what happened to Terra Luna. The answer comes back confident, well-structured, and maybe slightly wrong because the model’s primary reference point just went dark.

Large language models don’t learn the way humans do. They absorb enormous quantities of text and internalize patterns from it. Wikipedia, with its structured, citation-linked, topic-dense format, is close to an ideal training source, particularly for factual domains like finance, technology, and yes, crypto.

The only time the English Wikipedia has gone fully dark was January 18, 2012, a 24-hour blackout protesting the…