Sci-Hub has launched its own SCI token through which it hopes to unlock more paywalled research. The controversial shadow library, which is used by millions of researchers around the globe, sees this as the next step to decentralize science and reward knowledge sharing. Whether this pirate ‘tokenomics’ works in practice has yet to be seen.
Source: Sci-Hub’s Crypto Coin Aims to Power a New Era of ‘Open’ Science * TorrentFreak