Recently, memes have become more and more diverse, and they are even starting to have practical uses.
For example, in the case of scientific research papers, papers are originally written by scientific researchers all over the world with great effort, but this business has long been controlled by a few literature websites around the world. Not only is it very expensive to download, but the scientific researchers do not get any income at all.
Gradually, some people in the academic circle began to resist and started to distribute academic materials for free.
In fact, this is very simple. It is just to collect scientific research databases and make them available for anyone to download for free.
The most successful project is Sci-Hub, which was founded in 2011 by Alexander Elbakin from Kazakhstan (hereinafter referred to as Sister A).
This project was so successful that Ms. A was named one of the top 10 scientific researchers in 2016 by Nature magazine:
However, this incident has affected the interests of many vested interests. Sci-Hub has been sued many times since 2015 and was ordered to pay Elsevier $15 million in 2017.
The blow to this project is not limited to this. The tweets made by Sister A on Twitter are still protesting Twitter’s blocking of Sci-Hub’s official Twitter account in 2021.
Although many people in the academic community use Sci-Hub, its voice is still too small compared to the vested interests, so many ordinary people don’t know what is happening here.
But all this may be changed by meme.
First, CZ and Vitalik both participated in Desci's event, which directly brought the distributed science track to the forefront:
Then there was AA, a dual OG in the crypto and academic circles. The big shot AA, who graduated from Peking University, discovered the fair distribution meme: $scihub, realized that this might be a very attractive story for Desci, and then bought it himself to become a big dealer.
A few hours ago, AA contacted Ms. A and wanted to donate more than 20% of his holdings to Sci-Hub:
You know, Sister A has been fighting these academic tycoons single-handedly for many years, and her main source of income is donations.
Now that the $scihub meme has become popular, maybe Sister A can live a life that matches her contributions.
The current market value of $scihub is 50 million US dollars, and Sister A has received donations worth 5.5 million US dollars.
In addition, Ms. A can continue to receive 9% donations in the next year.
This amount of money should be enough for Ms. A to achieve financial freedom in Kazakhstan~
In addition, for ordinary people who don’t understand academics, speculating on $scihub can be considered a contribution to the academic circle!
