What do you think of it? I believe sound scientific results are as perfectly collectable as art:
1) they are as eternal as art -- and even more, once discovered they stay forever (even if they are adjusted in the future -- the originals still remain in the history of science);
2) they accumulate value over time; a natural measure of the value of a scientific article is the number of articles that cite it; some articles prove to be influental in the community and increase their "importance" with time as new citations come;
3) they have a clear body outside blockchain -- publication (with its unique permanent identifier DOI);
4) the authorship of the published results can be easily established through the journal's editorial board or reputable citation databases (e.g, Web of Science, Scopus)
5) there should be no problems with copyright; although the rights to non-opensource articles belong to the publishers, the ideas behind the articles are free of copyright; so one can embody his/her ideas into a contentive picture form and attach the DOI-based weblink to the corresponding article -- that should be enough to respect the interests of all the parties;
6) selling NFT is an elegant way to support scientific creators; there is a problem in modern science: grants are readily delivered to those who have a clear and guaranteed outcome -- but IT IS NOT the way how true fundamental science works; real big exploratory science is always full of uncertainty, while the current grant system propels only very shy trips to unknown; selling sciNFTs will allow the seller to secure funds for future daring scientific endeavors, and the buyer -- to write his/her name in history
we made an example sciNFT on my friend's result (to our best knowledge it is the first sciNFT ever made)
https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/27103285260039148662642556205326734913225411898042462819924473519386241531905(well usually he does not cut poor triangles, but do sophisticated research in topology, see his profiles
https://zbmath.org/?q=ai%3Apatrakeev.mikhail-ahttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-5208https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=26032643700 )
if you are interested in the details on this NFT, contact Mikhail directly (you can find his email in contact details provided with any of his articles) or ask me here (my interests are much closer to computer science, so I captivated him with the sciNFT idea and helped him with the issuing as Mike is a pure mathematician flying far away from blockchains Smiley )
you are more than welcome to share your thoughts on sciNFT topic in general
for example, I absolutely do not understand how to promote them
say I found a couple of brilliant "easy-to-understand-but-hard-to-achieve" results, made deals with the authors and issued the sciNFTs
but wouldn't they just get totally lost in the ocean of NFT-art..
