bitcoin & the blockchain for the entertainment industry
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Bitcoin & the Blockchain for the Entertainment Industry
Valerian Bennett
[email protected] & CEO, PopChest.com
Made in Silicon Beach
What is Bitcoin…to me?
- Rights - Funding - Distribution
Everything starts on the written page
Why is assigning ownership important?
Rights = Royalties
The benefits of a public ledger
bitcoin the currency vs. Bitcoin the blockchain
permissionless, immutable
- Ascribe.io - Bitproof.io - ProofOfExistence.com
- Rights - Funding - Distribution
Ideas are easy. GSD is hard.
Trends in crowdfunding
Technology is forcing the law’s hand
smart tokens, digital asset issuance
2.0 Open-source platforms: Counterparty, Colored Coins, Ethereum
- Tatianacoin.com - Colu.co - Tokenly.com
- Rights - Funding - Distribution
Digital production is democratized
Distribution as commodity vs gatekeeper scarcity
No applause, just throw money
micropayments, real-time P2P royalties
programmable money, smart contracts
- PopChest.com - JoyStream.co - BitTunes.org
Bitcoin as: currency
public ledger payment network
open-source platform
What happens to Movie Studios, Television Networks, Record Labels?
Bitcoin & the Blockchain for the Entertainment Industry
Valerian Bennett
[email protected] & CEO, PopChest.com
Made in Silicon Beach