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RE: Wherein I ramble along, trying to think about putting genomes on blockchains
A nice string of thoughts with a hilarious example.
I would refrain from the idea that everything has to be decentralized. For some applications, decentralization has too many disadvantages.
If you would "blockchain" scientific results, then I'd go the referencing pathway. Storing the full data onchain is just overkill. You would also need to create benefits for running such storage-consuming nodes, which is another pitfall. Without "payment", it's not possible. With payment, you impair the scientific quality, just as you said.
I'm resteeming your post, as I hink this is an important discussion to be held for all of us "onchain" scientists.
Yeah, I'm leaning towards the offchain style and I think it'd be more useful for sharing stuff like annotations than raw data. Thanks for the resteem, I'm glad to have people to talk with this about. In my real world lab, blockchains are still just 'those bitcoins that people waste energy on with their computers.'