Journaling systems, regardless of domain, perform record keeping, and like any other "human-based trust system" there are very high costs, which means the content has to be filtered heavily. The reason a scientific thesis has to be reviewed in advance, is because journal-based record keeping has not had enough resources to record all ideas, and to then let the citation process be what proves wether or not a thesis has value.

With "technology based trust systems" such as Ethereum, the costs decrease massively, and that means that the laws of economics allow for other organizational structures.

Science in the age of the Global Singleton

Ethereum as a "global singleton" (Wood, 2015) provides a global medium for trust, "a single institution" as Gavin Wood says. With that resource available, I have recored a thesis that I have developed, as proof that the content existed at a given time ("proof-of-thesis". )

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