Why I'm Building The Money Wiki

Why I'm Building The Money Wiki

I first came across Wikipedia around 2007. Didn't quite grasp it at the time. By 2010, I was convinced it was going to become one of the most important things on the internet. It did.

That got me thinking: what if something like this existed for financial services? I looked around. Found Investopedia — still the gold standard, no argument there. But I wanted something more community-driven, more alive.

I fell into Quora instead. Spent the next six or seven years deep in it, answering questions about payments, banking, licensing. Over five thousand answers. I was one of seventy-two people in the world to earn the Quora Top Writer designation six times. Six.

Then Quora accused me of spam and closed my account. No conversation, no warning. Just gone.

So I pulled every single answer off the platform. If they didn't want my content, they weren't going to keep it.

I've put it all here now. And I'm building something better.

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The money wiki idea actually predates any of this. Around 2014, I registered themoneywiki.com and tried to get it off the ground. It was too early. Information was moving faster than I could keep up, and I didn't have the coding skills to build what I had in my head. The idea went on the shelf.

It kept slow-cooking.

Then around 2022, I was writing articles for my own consulting site and clients kept asking the same questions. What's a money transmitter license? How does cross-border settlement work? I started building a small internal glossary to point people to. The glossary grew. It became a wiki. By the time it hit eight or nine hundred articles, I thought: this is getting big. By a thousand pages, it was obvious it needed its own home.

The problem was still the coding. That changed when vibe coding arrived. For the first time I could describe what I wanted and actually watch it get built. And by 2026, where vibe coding has improved by orders of magnitude, I'm finally putting this live.

Right now the site is sitting at around five to six thousand pages. In a year or two, I expect that to be forty or fifty thousand. We're building big.

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What is The Money Wiki, exactly?

It's a mix of a traditional wiki, a Q&A platform, a financial glossary, and a data repository — focused entirely on banking, payments, money, crypto, licensing, compliance, economics, and everything that touches how money moves in the world.

But here's what it's not: a Wikipedia clone.

Wikipedia has strict notability rules. You can't embed video. You can't have a company page without jumping through hoops. You can't showcase your own work.

The Money Wiki is different. Companies will be able to have their own pages. Experts will be able to answer questions and build a real presence. You'll be able to embed content, publish original research, run your own wiki page inside a regulated-finance context that actually makes sense.

I spent years contributing to platforms that owned my content. Those days are done.

This is the first post I feel confident enough to put out. I'll keep you updated as this thing grows.