Source: C Labs Crypto Observer
Recently, the meme has become more and more expensive, and it even started to have actual use.
For example, the issue of academic papers, originally the research papers were written by hardworking researchers around the world, but this business has been monopolized by several literature websites globally for a long time, not only is the download very expensive, but the researchers also have no benefits~
Gradually, people in the academic circle began to resist and started to distribute academic materials for free~
In fact, it's quite simple, just collect the research databases and provide free downloads for anyone.
The most successful project is Sci-Hub, which was established in 2011, founded by Alexandra Elbakyan from Kazakhstan (hereinafter referred to as Sister A)
This project was so successful that Sister A was named one of the 10 most influential people in scientific research by Nature magazine in 2016:
But this matter has affected the interests of many vested parties, Sci-Hub has been sued multiple times since 2015, and was ordered to pay Elsevier $15 million in 2017.
The impact on this project is not limited to this, Sister A's tweets are still protesting against Twitter's decision to block Sci-Hub's official Twitter account in 2021.
Although many people in the academic community use Sci-Hub, compared to the vested interest group, the voice is still too small, so that many ordinary people don't even know what's happening here.
But all this may be changed by the meme.
First, CZ and Vitalik participated in the Desci event, directly igniting the distributed science track:
Then the crypto and academic OG, the big guy AA from Peking University, discovered the fair distribution meme: $scihub, realizing that this could be an attractive story for Desci, and then bought a big position himself.
A few hours ago, AA, with a great vision, contacted Sister A, wanting to donate about 20% of his holdings to Sci-Hub:
You should know that for so many years, Sister A has been fighting these academic oligarchs single-handedly, and her main source of income is donations.
Now that the $scihub meme has become popular, perhaps Sister A can live a life that matches her contribution.
Currently, the market cap of $scihub is $50 million, and Sister A has already received $5.5 million in donations.
Additionally, Sister A can continue to receive 9% of the donations in the next year.
This funding should be enough for Sister A to achieve financial freedom in Kazakhstan~
Furthermore, for ordinary people who don't understand academia, trading $scihub can also be considered a contribution to the academic circle~
