• Funding Science with Science: Cryptocurrency and Independent Academic Research Funding

    Author(s):
    Dylan Hunzeker, Edward Lehner, John Robert Ziegler (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Subject(s):
    Finance
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Funding/Private funding
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6KV69
    Abstract:
    Scientific funding within the academy is an often complicated affair involving disparate and competing interests. Private universities, for instance, are vastly outpacing public institutions in garnering large, prestigious, science-related grants and external research investment. Inequities also extend to the types of research funded, with government, corporate, and even military interests privileging certain types of inquiry. This article proposes an innovative type of science research fund using cryptocurrencies, a fast-growing asset class. Although not a total funding solution, staking coins, specifically, can be strategically invested in to yield compound interest. These coins use masternode technologies to collateralize the network and speed transaction pace and may pay dividends to masternode holders, allowing institutions that purchase these types of central hubs to potentially engage in a lucrative form of dividend reinvestment. Using cryptocurrencies as a new funding stream may garner large amounts of capital and creation of nonprofit institutes to support the future of funding scientific research within educational institutions.
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.5195/ledger.2017.108
    Publisher:
    University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
    Pub. Date:
    2017-12-18
    Journal:
    Ledger
    Volume:
    2
    Page Range:
    65 - 76
    ISSN:
    2379-5980
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    6 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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