Here in this forum, the majority of active members (non spammers and serial bounty hunters) would still be carefully following it to decide what action to take. And if it turns out to not be a problem with Bitcoin as you pointed out, many would fomo in.

Another interesting service is ScienceMatters .. this is the first publication service which actually pay reviewers for their work on meticulously reviewing manuscripts.
That too in form of crypto currency.

Artifacts is another very useful platform where researchers can share their researches, or anything else in a way that each file logged to a blockchain. Users can set permissions so that their uploads are private, public or available to collaborators.