I wonder how much of this is “don’t hat the player, hate the game.” As a society, we decided that academics must get funding outside of their department. We al

I wonder how much of this is “don’t hat the player, hate the game.” As a society, we decided that academics must get funding outside of their department. We also chose that funding bodies liked blockchain for reasons unknown. There is probably a professor somewhere who is working on peer incentives to support education, and realized the work would get funded if they stored the incentives in a blockchain rather than a database. If this professor had stronger professional ethics - someone else would have the same realization. Is it the professor, the department, or the funding agencies fault?