Could Blockchain provide the technical fix to solve science’s reproducibility crisis?
Sönke H. Bartling, Benedikt Fecher · London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) · 2016
Blockchain technology has the capacity to make digital goods immutable, transparent, and provable. Sönke Bartling and Benedikt Fecher look at the technical aspects of blockchain and also discuss its application in the research world. Blockchain could strengthen science’s verification process, helping to make more research results reproducible, true, and useful.