Blockchain Entrepreneurs, Musicians Test Ideas at Berlin Music Festival
A group of musicians, entrepreneurs and blockchain advocates is set to gather at a festival in Germany later this week with the aim of testing how the technology can change the music industry. The Music Tech Fest Berlin is set to be held from 27th to 30th May. During this time, the MTFLabs: Blockchain initiative will bring together participants including Grammy Award winner Imogen Heap, who has been advocating for blockchain applications in the music industry since last year. Also participating in the event are Vinay Gupta of Ethereum, music production platform PledgeMusic founder Benji....
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This Saturday, the 31st of October, Berlin will be the acting grounds for the Bitfilm Festival, the Second Film Festival about Bitcoin. The Bitfilm productions organization selected Berlin for the kick-off event for the worldwide Festival Tour, which already counts with other scheduled dates and welcoming cities for the following events. The Bitfilm Festival is a showcase of films that use digital technology in a creative and innovative way. Since the year 2000, the Bitfilm Festival group has organized a series of events on the Internet and at the organization offices in Hamburg. The....
The Bitfilm Festival, an annual film festival about all things Bitcoin and Blockchain and spanning multiple cities around the world is due to kick-off tomorrow, October 31 in Berlin, Germany. The first global film festival to showcase films exclusively related to Bitcoin and Blockchain will have its second annual event start in Berlin tomorrow. The film festival will then roll around to more than a dozen cities around the world where local communities of Bitcoin enthusiasts will organize the event in their respective cities. The final pit stop of the worldwide tour is rumored to be in....
A popular international music festival, Exit, is now accepting cryptocurrency for tickets, products, and services. This year’s 20th-anniversary edition of the European event will be held in early summer and the festival’s online store already offers discounts for impatient music fans and visitors. Fans to Pay With Crypto for Festival Passes and Accommodation Bitcoin, the organizers say, is a fast and secure currency that has dramatically challenged the current norms of finance and governance. That’s why the festival now offers crypto enthusiasts among music fans the....
Bitcoinist.net were invited to one of biggest music festival in Europe called Balaton Sound. Since digital currencies are now getting deeply involved in the music industry we thought this could be a perfect place to ask a few musicians about their opinion on bitcoion. We had a chance to make a few interviews on the festival. The 2014 MasterCard Balaton Sound attracted a total of 145 000 fans during 4 days and 5 nights. Almost 50% of the guests came from abroad and the festival passes were sold out months before the start of the event. The live stream of the festival reached hundreds of....
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is stepping into non-fungible token (NFT) technology space, according to the festival’s official Twitter account. Coachella partnered with the crypto exchange FTX US, and the NFTs are minted on the Solana blockchain.
Coachella Partners With FTX US to Mint Solana-Based Digital Collectibles
Since 1999, the festival co-founded by Rick Van Santen and Paul Tollett called Coachella has been a popular music and arts event with its highest attendance in 2017, peaking at 250,000 attendees. Music acts that have played at various....