Calculating with Permanent Marker: How Blockchains Record Immutable Mistakes in Computational Chemistry.

Abstract

Computational science experiments within an open blockchain environment have recently been demonstrated and can improve transparency, reproducibility, and censorship resistance in theoretical scientific work. However, the append-only nature of these records also means that historical calculation errors cannot be effectively removed or changed. This process preserves otherwise unavailable data on the scientific process of error correction and is shown here for simulations of carbon monoxide.