You can totally trust Kim Dotcom, who is only slightly a convicted felon with an extensive history as a con man.
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Tag: bitcoin
Links: Roland founder dies, workplace entrance themes, BitTorrent repivot.
And some notes on The Book.
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Links: SoundCloud $70m, Facebook the label, Discogs, Bitcoin and Boss Baby.
why does bitcoin keep coming up in my music links WHYYY
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Links: AirPod woes, MegaUpload 2.0 delayed by dodginess, classic anti-piracy ads.
“Sorry but there has been an expected hiccup. Will tell you all about it later today. Let this play out and give me some time to update you.”
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Links: Spotify malware ads, music manuscript fonts, drugs. And Blockchain.
It’s been another busy day with Blockchains in. Have some links.
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More Bitcoin spammers for your amusement, or mine at least.
Two copies of this just hit the email box. Why don’t you follow the link they want to give me $30 to put their link on. I’ll just be waiting here.
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Get rich with Bitcoin advertising on Rocknerd! [citation needed]
Today I got an email from a Bitcoiner offering a mutually beneficial business proposition! He wanted me to add a “text link” to a post (neither text nor link included in proposal) for a whole FORTY DOLLARS. That’s as many as four tens, you know!
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SingularDTV: a “blockchain entertainment studio” using Ethereum for DRM on their totally boss sci-fi TV show about the Singularity.
SingularDTV is an exciting new blockchain-based entertainment industry boondoggle. It’s part DRM snake oil marketing, part pseudo-Bitcoin scam and part sincere Singularitarian weirdness. You should not fall for it.
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Kim Dotcom’s Mega 3, with Bitcoin. Two bad ideas that go worse together.
Kim Dotcom is a crook and a scammer. I feel this claim is sufficiently backed for me to make such a bold statement in England. The amazing thing was that the MPAA ever made a colourful racing identity like Dotcom look like the good guy.
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Imogen Heap doesn’t make the blockchain hype make sense either.
The big name in recent “blockchain” (Bitcoin) hype is Imogen Heap. As far as I can tell, it’s still the case that nothing about this is going to work.
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More on the blockchain-music hype: what PeerTracks thinks it’s doing.
After the amazingly terrible Berklee white paper on how to make all musicians rich using magic beans, today we have a breathless piece of content marketing in Billboard hyping the notion, devoid of useful detail and promising the moon on a stick fueled by very complicated computer wizard magick.
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Putting the record industry on Bitcoin: Why this won’t work.
Bloomberg has put up a breathless piece of hype based on a report from the most speculative unit of the Berklee College of Music, suggesting that doing it all on THE BITCOIN BLOCKCHAIN will shower money on all. Plus point: it is indeed from Berklee. Minus points: it’s made of squirrels and crack.
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