Blockchain for Music? Enter Musicoin

  Visualise this scenario for a moment. As a music lover, you have access to all the tunes in the world on your devices: no subscription and platform lock-in, no libraries divided across multiple apps, no regional restrictions. All the music you want, and fully interoperable. As a musician, you have the ability to copyright[…]

Blockchain for Music: Rethinking Models for Consumption and Rewards with Musicoin

New venture Musicoin uses smart contracts to govern a Pay-Per-Play model for rewarding creators. Co-founder Isaac Mao, who is a Chinese entrepreneur, software architect and social media researcher, will give a lightning talk about Musicoin’s journey so far. This was second of Digital Asia Hub and the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society[…]