‘Great Artists Steal’ – What Enterprise Blockchain Can Learn From the Past

Blockchain technology makes it difficult to cheat. Could music artists benefit from this feature? CoinTelegraph talked to a number of experts to learn how the music industry could adapt to the rules of the digital age. How Blockchain can help the music industry. Gabe Higgins, Founder of CryptoEdge Solutions and Tampa Bay Bitcoineers, says to CoinTelegraph: “Being a musician for almost two decades I've experienced the dramatic decline of the music industry in the digital age. When I discovered Bitcoin and learned about Blockchain technology, it immediately struck me as something which could....

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,....

Empowering artists through the blockchain is something that has reached an international audience. Informing a global audience about the advantages of the blockchain far outweigh the negative publicity that it has received. In a TechCrunch interview at a Disrupt conference in London, Imogen Heap gives a detailed description of her MiMu gloves used in performances, but also a very real idea of future practices for artists- music that is- using the blockchain revolution that, she says "will fully blossom next year-2016." Public awareness has been characterized with pros and cons on the topic....

Enterprise use of blockchain technology has evolved at an almost unfathomable rate over the past 24 months. From early bitcoin experiments, to senior bankers joining startups, to the launch of the public ethereum decentralized application platform, to the many private, permissioned systems using the technology, blockchain has emerged as one of the top enterprise IT trends entering 2017. Yet, the market has already moved beyond the incubation phase where innovators effectively build the technology along with their initial applications, and possibly beyond the early adopter phase, too.....

Ever consider what the future of the music industry looks like with the advent of blockchain technology? Cédric Cobban certainly has. Co-founder of PeerTracks and member of the BitShares Music Foundation, Cédric seems to have a clear vision when it comes to music's role in the emerging decentralized economy. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Cédric about the PeerTracks P2P music platform and his outlook on the future of music and what it means for both artists and fans. Also read: Bitshares Out to Make P2P Music Profitable. Listen, The Future Of Music. What is PeerTracks and why....