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RE: A new way to publish research findings. The Fair Journal pay scientists what is fair, and publish cartoon versions of the articles for kids
Interesting concept for sure. We have seen many variants of attempted solutions to the pricing of research come and go on Steem and other Ethereum based tokens, and we often never hear from them again. Do you believe you have a model that can function long term already?
More importantly for me and SteemSTEM, how do you think this - or any - blockchain will contribute to your cause, outside of being another place to share your content? Assuming you get some revenue from posting here, what would you do with it?
Thank you Mobbs! I think my model would be able to function in the long run. I have heard from teachers that they are very interested in something like this, and may even be interested in implementing it in the curriculum. So if that happens, it would be a steady number of viewers every month. But of course we are still far away from this.
The most obvious answer to how SteemSTEM will contribute, is that I may be able to generate more revenue to produce more cartoons (which is the only thing that requires funding right now). But the blockchain technology is also perfect for documenting scientific results, as it will not be possible to manipulate it, like it otherwise in theory would be on any normal website. So with the blockchain technology we have sort of a modern laboratory notebook where you always can look back to check that everything is kosher.
The revenue I would get from here, I would use to make more cartoons. And hopefully more cartoons would mean more interest in the journal, which would mean even more revenue for even more cartoons, and so on.
Cool. Our value is not great now with the steem prices we have, but maybe itll be worth something down the line =)
Let's hope so :)