"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.” –Carl Sagan
A novel solution for funding and supporting scientific research world wide, based on the emerging crypto-economy.
In the 'Fiat' universe, generally speaking, funding is somewhat of a Zero sum game.
Whenever a certain scientific project receives funds, it normally means that someone (probably a governing body or a patron), had to relinquish said funds.
In the crypto universe, new technology can facilitate the creation of economic micro-verses, in which fungible digital assets which interact with the underlying infrastructure (i.e the blockchain), are seemingly created out of thin air.
In my humble opinion, here lies one of the greatest novelties of digital assets and the crypto revolution - the ability to quantify (in monetary terms) many types of endeavors, in a non-zero-sum fashion.
In the Steemit micro-verse, this ability is obviously content creation, but it just as-well may be anything.
The revenue from each post does not directly come from anyone's pocket.
Rather, It is "generated" by code.
A blockchain based crypto-economic 'micro-verse', addressing two major target audiences -
researchers and science enthusiasts.