Blockai Launches 'Netscape for Bitcoin' With Blockchain Browser
"It was awkward and it was a viral loop. People tipped $150,000 in 10 days, and then a lot of people who got bitcoin... it sat there and they didn't do anything with it, ever." Blockai CEO Nathan Lands is referring to the spike in interest in first bitcoin project, QuickCoin, a Facebook-integrated wallet that sought to entice new users. That project has now evolved into Blockai (pronounced 'block-i'), which takes a similar approach to spreading bitcoin, although it places more emphasis on the capabilities of its blockchain rather than its use as a digital currency. While resembling a....
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Blockai has announced it has raised $547,000 in seed funding to relaunch as a blockchain copyright service. Originally envisioned as a ‘Netscape for Bitcoin’ in 2015, Blockai (pronounced 'block-i') attempted to turn the blockchain into a kind of social media stream that would allow users to send messages and authenticate items. Now, Blockai is bidding for a new life as a tool that allows artists to authenticate and claim copyright over images. According to AngelList, Social Starts, Sterling VC and Vectr Ventures contributed funding alongside roughly 15 angel investors including Betfair....
The same way the browser became the window into the early internet, digital wallets are becoming the interface for the decentralized internet, or Web 3.0. Most people might not remember that websites once had icons that said, “This site has been optimized for Internet Explorer,” but, two decades ago, it wasn’t uncommon.Just like today’s battle between Web 2.0 monopolies and Web 3.0 communities, at the beginning of the early consumer internet, there was a similar battle waged over who would own the portal to it: A closed-source global monopoly, or an open-source nonprofit.A battle for the....
Blockai now allows online content creators to claim cryptographic proof of their works to be recorded on the Bitcoin blockchain so that it gives basic copyright protection which can help owners remove copyright violations. Registering a copyright with Blockai will remain free forever. CEO Nathan Lands says to TechCrunch: “The blockchain is the perfect solution for providing proof of creation. It’s a permanent immutable record. Meaning, once the record is there, it’s there forever and will never change.” Copyright protection as profitable business. According to Blockai, copyright protection....
Blockai, a San Francisco, Calif.-based technology company, has developed a copyright service that uses the bitcoin blockchain to allow artists to protect their creative work in the digital age. While the Internet has unleashed a wealth of opportunities for creative work, protecting content has posed a big challenge, especially for independent producers of digital art, literature and even computer software. Tapping Artificial Intelligence. “We are developing artificial intelligence to create unique fingerprints for all copyrighted works to protect copyrights and make sure artists get paid,”....
Bloomberg Markets magazine interviewed Marc Andreessen at the firm's headquarters in Menlo Park, the Washington Post reports. Marc Andreessen, co-author of Mosaic web browser and co-founder of Netscape Communications, is one of the persons who invented today's Internet. Since Netscape was bought out by America Online (AOL) in 1999, Andreessen has spent his time making other key innovations and investing in technology ventures at his Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Andreessen's current interest is upending finance as we know it today, with cryptography, Bitcoin and....