I think Steem could have a role in improving scholarly communication. First, lot's of communication happens on centralized platforms like Twitter that should migrate to Steem. Steem also gives scientists an alternative funding mechanism at a time when funding is becoming increasingly difficult. Therefore, projects like Utopion and the future release of Smart Media Tokens are super exciting.

The main thing science needs is stronger incentives for researchers to be immediately open with their research. Through my actions of being completely open, I try to demonstrate how openness allows researchers to succeed. However, the norm in science continuous to be somewhat closed, but there's lot's of enthusiasm for change.

Thanks @tibra for releasing your post under an open license. I do the same with my posts! Some that you may be interested in are:

1. Plagiarism & blockchain timestamping gone awry: the most interesting case of scientific irreproducibility?
2. How I used the Manubot to reproduce the Bitcoin Whitepaper
3. Upcoming Reddit AMA on our Sci-Hub Coverage Study
4. Censorship gone awry on Reddit: the aftermath of our r/science AMA

I remember your username so sorry if you've already checked out these posts! Cheers to #steemstem and improving scholarly communication.