Re: rpietila Wall Observer - the Quality TA Thread ;)

This would make for a great academic paper!

I'm starting to think there is a lot of low-hanging fruit that would make interesting research papers. We need to found J Bitcoin. This forum is useful for brainstorming and vetting ideas, but I think a lot of good work gets lost and forgotten in the noise. It would be useful to publish highly-polished peer-reviewed manuscripts in an archival format accessible to everyone.

See this thread from 2012 ...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=115048.0

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Looks like the correct search term is "Financial Cryptography".
Also the spring link (http://www.springer.com/generic/search/results?SGWID=0-40109-23-0-0&searchType=EASY_CDA&queryText=Financial+Cryptography+and+Data+Security&sortOrder=relevance&searchScope=books) seems to be the closest thing to something peer-reviewed.

Yes, but a result about Metcalfe's law doesn't need to go in a cryptography journal. It's really an economic result and should go in a journal of economics... it just seems that there is a cultural barrier to overcome at the moment.

Perhaps there actually would be a demand for J Bitcoin. It would be unorthodox in the sense that it would accept papers in all bitcoin-related fields (cryptography, economics, hardware engineering, etc), but I may actually read it! I think if you kept the quality high via a rigorous peer-review process, it may eventually establish itself as the journal for research regarding bitcoin. Chris's colleagues in economics who scoff at bitcoin now will be hoping to get published in J Bitcoin five years hence, lol.

I would read it. Heck, I would volunteer to be an editor (I've been an assistant editor for another journal).