> Everyone in the blockchain space self-publishes all relevant material hence a journal like this is completely pointless. Hopefully one can do both, as is sta

> Everyone in the blockchain space self-publishes all relevant material hence a journal like this is completely pointless. Hopefully one can do both, as is standard practice for lots of institutions these days. > It also slows down the rate of publishing by requiring ridiculously tedious formatting requirements all so a self-elected panel of experts can deem if a piece of content is worthwhile. One can self-publish simultaneously and continuously post revised editions as review is received. This is pretty ubiquitous. > Of course, to get through this process we end up with a 'paper' with no runnable code. This is entirely voluntary. The most frequent offenders when it comes to not uploading code are companies who think they're giving up IP by publishing research code. Institutions (and companies, lately) frequently cite github.com url's in papers in the machine learning space. I see no reason why they couldn't with a journal submission.