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RE: Tonight: Gitcoin & Byteball -- Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show -- every Wed 7 PM UTC

in #utopian-io6 years ago (edited)

I'm looking forward to hearing an update regarding Byteball. This seems like a very interesting project that might offer accessibility to the non-programming public for the creation of digital assets and smart contracts. As a researcher, I think that smart contracts could be used to incentivize speedy delivery of research products (e.g., publications). Quite often, a research project is deliberately delayed to logistical considerations that are related to grant funding cycles. Perhaps locking research funding into a smart contract contingent upon publication to Pubmed (oracle) with an aggressive timeline could overcome some of those disincentives.