Historically it's been shown that academia can be a very successful incubator of nascent technologies, ones that often bloom into billion dollar industries. Fro

Historically it's been shown that academia can be a very successful incubator of nascent technologies, ones that often bloom into billion dollar industries. From the internet to robotics to medicine, it's been shown time and again that academia is effective in this regard. If you like blockchain technology, you should want academics focused on this work; they have access to millions of dollars in government grants just waiting to be applied to this area. Academics need legitimate venues to publish peer reviewed-research (because that's how they convince the government to give them millions of dollars in grants. You don't get grants by self-publishing).