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All and all it is a non trivial problem. You have at the very least have to attach some kind of form of reputation system into the verification process. Even with that you will still have the "misunderstood genius" issue, or the "excellent reputation professor" that everyone trust without (enough) verification.

hugorousselon Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

Everything is still WIP, very difficult to do rich indexing on IPFS files. A new project idea ?

hugorousselon Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

There are for sure interesting ideas related to new forms of scientific funding. The issue I have and why the project is currently on standby is how to combat spam/hoax articles

hugorousselon Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

I think only www.xirva.org has valid certificate, maybe Firefox strips the www for some reason.

hugorousselon Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

Since it was for a ETHGlobal hackathon I thought it would be fun to experiment with the feature where we mint an NFT where the metadata points to the IPFS link. You could then do whatever you do with an NFT.

hugorousselon Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

Not all articles are uploaded yet, it is still WIP.

hugorousselon Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

Not all articles are uploaded yet, it is still WIP.

hugorousselon Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

I nearly called the project this name without knowing it existed. Thanks for the share.

hugorousselon Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

Build this during an hackathon where I felt like that arXiv was in grand need of a small face lift. Currently not all articles are uploaded. The repository is here : http://github.com/hugoroussel/xirva

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