Bitcoin Tipping App Cheers Aims to Change How Musicians Get Paid
The concept of using digital currencies as a means of tipping has entered a new phase with Cheers, a bitcoin-powered service that could create additional revenue streams for performing artists. Cheers pairs a mobile platform that enables bitcoin tips to be sent to musicians with a social network structure that allows users to share information, send messages to friends and search for new artists to support. The company's co-founder Justin Womersley told CoinDesk that he believes Cheers could reinvigorate an industry that has seen falling revenues for performing artists. Cheers, he says,....
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