thank you for your service.

> no one in academic publishing gets paid anything

How come none of those crypto and or VC bros are closing in on this issue? Better and more peer-reviewed research means more areas to raise economically viable ideas in and so the gravitational pull would get stronger in coming generations.

And those chain-guys talk a lot about trust, verification, decentralization, (proof of work) and so on ...

It's a "boring niche" that needs some ruckus, if you ask me.