blockchain article

[Plutchak, T Scott]

There’s been a mention or two on this list of what impact blockchain, the technology underlying bitcoin, might have on scholarly communication.  This article, from the New York Times magazine, is the best description I’ve yet seen about what the technology is and what some of its implications might be, far beyond cryptocurrencies.

 

It’s long, but well written, clear and I think very worth your time.

 

“Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble” by Steven Johnson.  New York Times Magazine, January 16, 2018.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/magazine/beyond-the-bitcoin-bubble.html

 

Scott

 

 

 

T Scott Plutchak

Librarian

Epistemologist

Birmingham, Alabama

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[Bryan Alexander]

Very useful piece.  I'm sure it will elicit some controversy.

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[Alexander Garcia Castro]

it is interesting and there is already a follow up; IMHO more accurate, see https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/01/18/what-the-ny-times-got-wrong-about-bitcoin/

To all here, please consider submitting to our special issue "Distributed Ledgers: Making Data Science More Open, Transparent, and Accountable"  we are interested in hearing from people like you. it does not have to be research, it may be your ideas wrt the use of this technology in open science, position statements etc. 

DLs are often praised for enabling more open, transparent and accountable processes in finance and beyond. For example, in e-science, they could disrupt scholarly publishing by allowing for a greater range of research outputs (publications, software, data, designs, requirements etc.) to be brought together into coherent, rich research objects, which could be identified, discovered, and used more easily; and by making scientific processes and contributions within a science team straightforward to trace and reward. They could potentially help with managing digital rights for research assets (via smart contracts), empower networks of researchers, and enable the technology of the common as well. Many other applications exist, including e-government, supply chain management, healthcare, and creative industries, to name just a few. We encourage submissions in all these, as well as other domains.

For more information: 

https://datasciencehub.net/content/special-issue-distributed-ledgers-making-data-science-more-open-transparent-and-accountable

I have started a community effort modeling open science business networks in hyperledger and ethereum, https://github.com/Blockchain4openscience/sample-networks everyone is welcome to participate. 

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[Anthony Watkinson]

I have just been to session on Blockchain at APE Berlin organised by Eefke Smit of STM. This was Wednesday. I am still ingesting the presentations but there was a real librarian speaking – Lambert Heller of TIN Hannover. I can see that the NYT article will need a lot of thought

Anthony

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