{"id":123957,"date":"2021-06-18T21:23:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T04:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/how-scientists-are-embracing-nfts"},"modified":"2021-06-23T04:39:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T11:39:53","slug":"how-scientists-are-embracing-nfts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/how-scientists-are-embracing-nfts","title":{"rendered":"How scientists are embracing NFTs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-scientists-are-embracing-nfts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The arguments over NFTs in science are similarly heated, with some saying they provide an incentive to showcase science to the public; a new method of fundraising; and even a way for people to earn royalties when pharmaceutical companies buy access to their genomic data. Others say that NFTs \u2014 which operate in a similar way to digital cryptocurrencies \u2014 are just needless energy pouring into a market bubble that\u2019s sure to burst.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Is a trend of auctioning non-fungible tokens based on scientific data a fascinating art fad, an environmental disaster or the future of monetized genomics?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arguments over NFTs in science are similarly heated, with some saying they provide an incentive to showcase science to the public; a new method of fundraising; and even a way for people to earn royalties when pharmaceutical companies buy access to their genomic data. Others say that NFTs \u2014 which operate in a similar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124158,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123957\/revisions\/124158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}