📢Publication Requests

A list of research topics and how to contribute as an author or editor.

Overview

This page serves to curate the list of research requests and describe the publication workflows. Each item in the list of publication requests is temporarily open to the public for the nomination of Authorship Teams.

To get started

1. Join the Build3 Foundation as a member (no fees) to participate in authorship or nomination. Only members are authorized to nominate or become authors and editors for teams. Members may also submit more topics for consideration.

2. Join the discord server to get in touch with existing members.

This page may be updated occasionally based on community input.

And without further adieu, let's look at the topics open for authorship nomination:

Publication Request List

Publications that do not receive an author and editor nomination are subject to expiry. New proposals will replace expired submissions.

If there are ten or fewer PR's listed below, that means Members can submit publication requests. Reach out on Discord if you have topics for research if the queue is open for ideas!

PR5 | Blockchain Makes Everything Worse for Everyone in Every Industry

Authorship Team:

Author // Ed Leite [awaiting acceptance]

Editor // Kenneth Shultz [accepted]

PR5 | Click to Expand | Submitted 12 April 2022

Abstract

This research aims to dig deeply into those advocating strongly against blockchain technology and web3 in general for ethical, economic, social, or other notable concerns. Relentlessly exploring dissenting opinions is vital to the rigor of the research and will shake loose existential threats overlooked due to confirmation bias. With those threats identified, Build3 can work to resolve or mitigate them within the protocol.

Related Research

• Line Goes Up - A two-hour documentary by Dan Olson with the general claim that blockchain technology is unnecessary financialization of everything that empowers capital holders fixes nothing, encourages fraud, and generally makes everything in the existing broken system much worse.
• The Third Web - A well-articulated summary discussing negative freedom, censorship, code-is-law problems, "transactionalism", and ownership. It discusses primary issues, including scaling, The Oracle Problem, ownership fallacies, climate destruction, pyramid scheme / bigger fool, and the general claim that VCs will fundamentally re-centralize the decentralized system.

  • From the website, "Web3 is a web of ownership. Every object is owned by someone, every object can be traded to someone else."

  • The above claim is not necessarily valid. Build3 is about authorship, no ownership. This distinction is the fundamental difference between the criticisms (generally focused on flaws inherent to fintech and so claims typically reside in the claim that blockchain is the financialization of all things). The distinction is vital: Build3 is concerned with authorship for construction supervision authority.

• Web3 is Going Great - A curated timeline of fraud and scams in blockchain to emphasize the problem with scams and fraud.