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The Intro
Chain Radio is the first 24/7 Internet radio station designed for cryptocurrency enthusiasts.

We’ve been working hard secretly for the past several months on building a 24/7, fully licensed Internet radio station that is built for cryptocurrency enthusiasts. We’ve got major plans for our radio station, we’ve received licenses from U.S. ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, SoundExchange, & SOCAN, we are finishing work on our streaming server, our request system and scheduling.

This station isn’t just lead by some fans of cryptocurrency, this station is led by experienced Internet radio managers, production teams and people who not only know Internet radio but are enthusiasts of Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and other cryptocurrencies.

We’ve worked hard over the past several months to bring it all together.

Chain Radio features the music you want to hear, the shows you’ve asked for, the news and updates that keep you in the loop.

With live streaming 24/7 we’ve built a platform the cryptocurrency community by the cryptocurrency community.

Current Needs
Right now we are looking for On-Air talent. If you've got a bitchin' Internet connection, a large collection of MP3 music and the ability to learn Sam Broadcaster we would love to speak with you.

We are also looking for people producing quality Bitcoin or cryptocurrency related podcasts who would like to extend their audience via Chain Radio.

If you want to make a small donation you can do so at: 1P29GBFUUDwfZFd8mhx3jXsaSZUMp4t96v

Donations will go to payments for servers, software (we license professional streaming software), the actual cost of music licenses (we do pay these), and other assorted costs.

Time Table
The station is currently LIVE and broadcasting 24/7.

Let's Hear Your Thoughts...
We want to hear what you are thinking about Chain Radio. Are you ready to see this happen, are you hoping to see something a bit different?

We intend on being listener powered in the sense that we are going to be building and developing our entire platform around you.

So, what are you thinking? Think this is a horrible idea, think it is a great idea? Interested in being a personality on air? Have questions?

We are here, and we are listening!

We've published our piece about Chain Radio over here for anyone interested: http://coinfire.cf/2014/07/06/another-crypto-radio-station-crops/ (http://coinfire.cf/2014/07/06/another-crypto-radio-station-crops/)

Thanks for the post! We hope to be sharing even more details VERY soon.

For those who have messaged asking what the current status is we wanted to provide a brief update.

We are currently finishing a few internal items that need to be taken care of. Scheduling being a large one and we still are looking for additional on-air talent.

We've secured all of the appropriate Internet radio licenses at this time, we've wrapped up some of the design work on our site and have begun quickly filling it up with content and we've been working on having a full series of professionally recorded bumpers and what not recorded and sent over to us.

Moar updates will be incoming soon!

Chain Radio, the Internet’s first fully licensed 24/7 streaming radio station for Bitcoin and cryptocurrency specialists, has announced that it will be launching on July 28th, 2014.

The station comes from a group of cryptocurrency and Internet radio enthusiasts and has been under development for several months obtaining licenses from U.S. ASCAP, BMI, SEASAC, SoundExchange and SOCAN. Chain Radio will include a wide range of programming from breaking bitcoin news and roundtable discussions to music selected by the listeners and original hosted radio shows. These shows will will be hosted by various personalities and bitcoin specialists, such as Adam B. Levine, Andreas Antonopoulos, and many more providing programing for those who love to stay informed on the ever changing face of cryptocurrency.

While other stations have been taken offline within the first month, Chain Radio has developed a long term plan to remain on the air delivering the most up to date and relevant news to their listeners. With a long term content and provider strategy the group hopes that it can be come a significant centerpiece of digital content for those involved in the cryptocurrency industry.

Chain Radio will begin broadcasting on July 28th, 2014 at 10am Eastern Daylight Time with an ‘All Music Hour’. A full schedule will soon be posted on the Chain Radio website at http://ChainRadio.com (http://ChainRadio.com).

Just wanted to give everyone an update that the website is live at http://ChainRadio.com/ and just as promised our fully-licensed radio station will be coming on the air as scheduled tomorrow morning at 10am Eastern Daylight Time.

We are still looking for live on-air personalities so if you are interested head on over to: http://chainradio.com/2014/07/27/want-to-host-a-show/

See you all soon!

where are you guys located?

Very excited to be a sponsor of your efforts and to be giving away some free tickets on air.

Also super pumped up to be involved in this project! Excited to see where this project goes and it has been awesome working with the Chain Radio team on making this a reality after so long.

Our main office is in Indianapolis, Indiana and we've got personalities all across the globe and always looking for more.

Chain Radio is now live and ready for your listening pleasure! Check it out over at http://ChainRadio.com/

Let us know what you think!

Chain Radio has been on the air for over 24 continuous hours and we wanted to take a look at some interesting facts...

We've had listeners from The United States, The United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Canada, Australia, and Egypt!

We've played just under 500 songs, aired several hours of interruption free music, kept our audience informed with the Chain Radio News Recap, updated the price of Bitcoin on air over 25 times, and seen great programming from You, Me and BTC, the SETI Institute, the Europop 20 and more.

Remember Chain Radio was created because we love cryptocurrency just as much as you do and we intend to keep kickin' ass.

If you have any comments, suggestions, thoughts, or complaints let us know!

Couple of thoughts at the moment.

1. Love that you implemented now playing and listener counts. Good to see that on the sidebar of the site.

2. Really enjoyed hearing that science show. Great addition. Fun and informative.

3. Can you make your daily news recap downloadable somewhere? Sometimes I am away from the ability to listen when you do it live and would love to be able to download the recap and listen to it later.

4. Can you get the advertisement rates live somewhere?

We will work on getting the daily news downloadable. Great suggestion!

Advertisements are sold on a case-by-case basis right now so just contact us rockstar@chainradio.com

Just wanted to let everyone know that Chain Radio will begin announcing our winning numbers for our daily drawings and our twice weekly drawings on the air each weeknight during the Chain Radio News Recap starting on Monday at 6pm EDT.

Thanks to our friends at Chain Radio!

I did my first show on Thursday and have been incredibly happy with the reception we've been getting. I loved seeing the listener count start to climb during my set and it's continued to do so. Everyone that's tuned in has my thanks for helping us get this going.

I'm having no luck playing the .m3u in Ubuntu, (I'm trying it via RythmBox). Is anyone listening on a Linux machine that could point me in the right direction?

EDIT: I found the flash player, so that seems to be fine for the time being.

Thanks ChainRadio!

Hey crackerhead!

Thanks for sending us a message, we are heavy Linux users on this end as well so we are investigating the issue with the M3U link and are working on offering more listen options over the next few days.

We hope to have all of these added soon!

Thanks for listening!

Rock on Chain Radio, let's keep this roll'n.   ;)

Awesome, the in-browser flash player works fine for now. Keep up the great work!

Thanks! After a massive DDOS we are back :)

Got your audio recording as well :)

Thanks! We are back after another DDOS attack and we are excited about getting the new options online!

Hate watching all of these DDOS attacks against you guys. You are a community site for the community and a few assholes keep messing that up but thank you for not just giving up and always fighting to keep it online.

Having said that, I also want to say that last night I tuned in and listened to the You Me and BTC Live coverage at Cryptolina and that was one of the coolest things I've ever heard.

I really hope you guys keep doing stuff like that, allowed me to feel like I had actually gone :)

It seems we've got them under control a bit for the time being at least. Sadly you can't place a streaming server behind CloudFlare so it takes a lot more traditional ways of fighting a DDOS to keep it under control.

Really great to hear that you liked it though. We are working to get various members of our team to more events in the near future.

Dude, thank you so much! I had a huge blast and I'm glad everyone loved it. The production was sketchy because I was using a free app on my phone haha but you're right, the content was wonderful. My favorite was the short time we spent with this guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_C._Moy). Thanks for listening!

Last Friday I was on air for the first time. Even though most of the listeners were asleep at my time of broadcasting, I had a blast.

The station has been steadily getting more listeners and momentum. It's a really nice project, and I'm very happy to be part of it :).

For those who aren't aware we do currently have a giveaway for 100,000 Dogecoins going on. Details can be found here: http://chainradio.com/2014/08/08/doge-dig-100k-giveaway/

You can earn a bonus entry by entering: BITCOIN TALK

We also have a giveaway of 100,000 LTBcoin on September 1st (Labor Day in the States). You can learn more about that one over here:
http://letstalkbitcoin.com/forum/post/100k-ltbc-giveaway

You can earn a bonus entry for that as well by entering: BITCOIN TALK
Enter that keyword here: http://chainradio.com/100k-ltbc-giveaway/

We have a major bitcoin giveaway coming in the near future as well as we work out the sponsorship of that. This won't be just a giveaway of dust either. We will be giving away something substantial for all of our listeners.

More great contests, features, shows and more are coming in the near future.

What is the best way to get in touch about advertisements on site?

You can send us a PM on here or use the contact form on our site.

Awesome, just came here to say congrats about beating that DDOS, and now I get some free giveaway entries!

Thanks! It is always an ongoing battle but we will keep fighting them :)

P.S I just checked out NEMnews for the first time ever. Is this your site?

Emailed you about working together with us on this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=751406

Hey sorry didn't see your reply. Yep news.nemcoin is my baby.

EDIT: is your donation address LTBcoin compatible?

I just signed up on CoinChat (https://coinchat.org) and think it would be really cool to have Chain Radio on Coin Chat... Is this something you guys can work on? hehehe

Our proper LTBcoin address is: 1J28Z3mk6CNUiuKYdmCXUkwqse8FssGsuM

We are likely going to merge our LTBcoin and bitcoin address soon as we are done accounting for the past month's license fees etc.

I am going to send you a message about NEMnews later this week :)

I sent you a little LTBcoin, I'll look out for that message  :)

We are checking in to this! Just saw the TechCrunch article for it and we will see if we can get it integrated. We've been discussing a lot of different chat options including rolling our own but having chat that let's listeners earn is a pretty cool concept :)

We've been slowly spinning up our streaming servers once again.

Looks like our new system is responding better to the constant DDOS attacks against our streaming machines and we should be able to stay online more :)

Great to hear you guys back online and have something to hear while developing!

Thanks! We've been able to hold up against the latest DDOS attack with a lot of help from our friends :)

We've got some exciting announcements coming soon :)