I (Heppner) am a philosopher of psychology, Research Hub Foundation. Our mission is to decentralize scientific publishing, and a key aspect of our approach is to align academic incentives with the actual quality of research.
I am currently spearheading a campaign to identify qualified scientific fraud researchers who can contribute content to our platform.
ResearchHub is a group of passionate scientists determined to revolutionize the traditional publishing model in academia. We offer financial incentives for a variety of contributions, including submitting research, writing peer reviews, and submitting literature reviews. All of this aims to accelerate scientific research while improving the quality of rigor.
We believe in transparency and attach peer reviews directly to published papers. This approach allows readers to easily assess how a paper will be received by colleagues and provides a clearer picture of its relevance.
After looking into it, it seems that this has something to do with something called Research Coin? I told Heppner that he was concerned because he had heard that these coin things were a huge waste of energy.
he replied:
I understand that you are wary of coins. Because that's a very common attitude held by ordinary people. However, the blockchain community listened to the energy critics and Ethereum, the chain on which our coin resides, switched to a more energy efficient method (proof of stake). Currently used are Only ~0.0026 TWh/year.
I followed the link and if this is real then yes Bitcoin seems like a really scary thing. But I don't know anything about these things (apart from scientific fraud. This is a topic I wanted to know more about!). Some people might be interested, so I'll share it here.