Bitcoin for Rockstars: How Cryptocurrency Can Revolutionize The Music Industry
D. A. Wallach is an investor and Spotify Artist-In-Residence. He is also a recording artist signed to Harvest/Capitol Records. There is an incredibly boring problem in the music industry for which bitcoin offers a potentially fascinating solution. In fact, I think this might be one of the coolest and most immediately worthwhile applications of distributed ledger and payment network technologies such as bitcoin. The problem is simply that no central database exists to keep track of information about music. Specifically, there are two types of information about a piece of music that are....
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