Hi there!

Thank you very much for your question.

Briefly: Yes, absolutely! You can choose to offer your data sets 100% free, no hidden fees, nothing! Actually, we as SciDex never take any transaction fees from any data sales. So even if you decided to sell the data, SciDex won't take any cuts. You keep the profit.

Your example of curing cancer is exactly what we are aiming for. We have a few researchers in our founding team who have experienced the pain of collecting data. In many cases, it was just to find out someone has already collected the exact same data before. The idea of SciDex is that individuals would share the data they have already collected and used.

We are grateful for our community members and people like you for spreading the word about us with friends and family. The more people know about SciDex, the more visible and shareable it gets!

One last important point: we index data instead of storing it. The data provider, the one who indexed it, will keep it on their server/platform. As a data provider, you won't have to give your data to the third party until it's actually sold.

I hope we were able to answer your question!

The SciDex Team.

Quote from: sshsupreme on May 31, 2018, 10:39:32 PM

Hi !

You said that "The access to the platform is free. Only once you want to purchase data, the seller decides how much it will cost.". But can people decide to share their data freely ? When I said freely, I mean completely free, no fee or anything else. Let's imagine that I found something really interesting and I want to share it for free. Can anyone in the world access/download the data completely free (really free, no fee, no bullshit) ?

Moreover, did you think about bringing this to such a point that people use this platform to find a new cure ?
For instance, a lot of people are working on a cure for cancer. Imagine that all the scientific data about the cancer is stored inside your blockchain, it might bring a whole new dynamism for the medical industry, people could really work together, share their work/experiment on your blockchain. Did you think about that ?

I like the project tho.