Imagine what research will be like on the blockchain!

Picture this, a rich guy, let's call him.... Frank, decides he wants to do some research on something.

Frank goes to a blockchain research company, let's call it.... RealResearch.

RealResearch learns what Frank wants to research. Their smart contract guy writes up a contract that Frank puts 200,000 ether into. Their test group people send out the contract address to a whole bunch of people that meet the criteria. The first 200,000 people to respond/do what needs to be done for the research submit their results to the smart contract. Immediately upon submitting their results, they receive their payment of 1 ether. The whole time all of these people's identities can be verified yet kept anonymous, many measures can be taken to prevent lazy people from being able to provide junk data, etc. The data is untamperwithable, it's on the blockchain. And now Frank can publicize this contract address and whoever wants to from all over the world can anazlyze the data and work on conclusions.

Holy shit monkeys is that different than the current system...

The free market connecting people with other people, cutting out insane amounts of middlemen, and making research faster, cheaper, and trustless.