Recalling Kardashev:\ A straw-person Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System base-layer primer for the Open Development of Astronomy and Astrophysics via the open blockchain public ledger}

Description:

This project aims to develop an alternative funding protocol for the Open Development of Astronomy and astrophyscs based on open block-chain ledger technology, as a straw-persons model.

The main motivation is to stop the hemorrhage or the "brain-drain' of Astronomy and Astrophysics grey-matter, as measured over the last fifty years in public universities, when the 'large' US Public University 'Market' is taken as a proxy, but it also aims to foster complimentary open development and innovation for Astronomy based on decentralized governance.

It attempts to be a network, that could be run on an "coordinated astropy package", Nostr protocol, subgraph tech etc., as validators of astropy modules that are part of publications, and other Open Development metrics etc as an alternative funding source based on the "Decentralized Finance Movement" liquidity.

Contributing: Of course contributors are necessary either for the paper, or help with astropy affiliated discussion, development of metrics, etc

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Table of Contents: Working on a New Kadashev relation and general tokenomics

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