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Arya Bahmanyar is a self-proclaimed bitcoin millionaire. The 28-year-old recently left his lucrative real estate career to launch a hip-hop music career with the rap moniker, CoinDaddy. Now, he makes music about common hip-hop themes with a twist of crypto lingo thrown in the mix, exploring themes like driving fancy cars and “slinging coins.” He hopes to use his music…

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Blockchain technology has brought us new methods of empowerment and new ways to break with the traditional production and distribution of artistic content. The music industry is one of the industries that can significantly benefit from this new technology as it can give producers permanent and total control over its artistic productions. SingularDTV is a blockchain-based platform that empowers artists…

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American rapper Lupe Fiasco in a recent interview with Business Insider shared his thoughts on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology especially regarding its potential impact on the music industry. Blockchain, Crypto, Collectibles, and Music The interview came following his participation in a technology summit with Autodesk. The Chicago-born rapper, whose real name is Wasalu Muhammad Jaco, talked about a wide-range of…

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Eticket4, an international p2p-marketplace for buying and selling tickets for sports, music, theater and other events to secondary market participants, completed pre ICO 9 days ahead of schedule, selling all 800,000 tokens. At the current rate, the company managed to attract almost $700,000. Eticket4 held a private sale on January 30 and 31, and on February 1 began the pre-ICO….

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The market is a sea of red today, yet a few leaders stand out from the pack. VIBE is one of the top gainers, but nothing should hold it back through this evening. They are sharing advertising space with Monster at the Super Bowl this evening! The Super Bowl The most watched televised broadcasts in history in the United States…

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Curtis James Jackson III, better known as the rapper ‘50 Cent,’ has just realized that he is a bitcoin millionaire. He was one of the earliest musicians to be associated with cryptocurrencies in 2014. During the worldwide release of his album Animal Ambition at the time, he was also the first one from the music industry to accept bitcoin payments….

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A ghost is frequenting the music business; the apparition of bitcoin. To be more particular, it’s the Fear of Missing Out on bitcoin, which is just characteristic given the computerized cash’s move from an estimation of about $1,000 to more than $19,000, before it settled at about $11,000. All of a sudden, a business that has spent the most recent…

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Independent artists like Casey Pearl of London are taking control of their own music brand and distribution with blockchain technology. In Pearl’s case, she has created a PEARL Token through SingularDTV’s Tokit dApp (app based on decentralized technology). This process affords her greater authority and creative freedom in regard to the production and release of her music and in how…

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The privacy-centric cryptocurrency project Monero announced that 45 musicians and bands, as well as five online retailers, will be accepting monero (XMR) as a payment method throughout the upcoming festive season. The broad move to adopt monero is the result of a secret GloBee fundraiser which kicked off in late October. According to a report by Forbes, musicians that will…

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Icelandic Singer Björk Accepts bitcoin for New Album, Utopia. Besides bitcoins, fans can pay with litecoin, dash and audiocoin’s. The album will go on sale on  November 24, and those who pre-order will obtain 100 audiocoin’s. Music Industry on the Blockchain Blockchain technology has already addressed issues in the public sector, the retail industry, finance, and identity technologies. Icelandic singer…

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