Spotify acquires blockchain firm to build ‘a more transparent music industry’

MediaChain Labs team brings crypto-currency knowledge to Spotify’s New York HQ

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Think Blockchain Is Bulls—t? This New Initiative Might Change Your Mind

Here are three more reasons to believe in blockchain’s chances: ASCAP, SACEM, and PRS for Music. There more than a thousand reasons why blockchain won’t work for the music industry.  Here’s one essay that addresses a few of them. But maybe there’s hope.  Just today, three of the largest royalty administration companies in the world […]

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Why Blockchain Won’t Save the Music Industry (at Least Not Yet)

The challenge with using the blockchain for music isn’t a technological one.  It’s a set of interlocking business problems that have been around since the beginning of music licensing… I’m sitting in a darkened, smoky room drinking with the dons of the music publishing mafia.  OK, it’s not really smoky because you can’t smoke in […]

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