Musicians worldwide have a problem with many aspects of the current situation. Just a few of them:

1. Authority rights registrations are centralized now. Companies like ASCAP are unnecessary middlemen, which could be replaced with a blockchain based registration system. This would change payments from now months(!) to almost instant and secure.
2. A few big companies control a big part of the cake, which could be changed using a decentralized solution. Fans could buy music directly at the source.
3. Meeting with other musicians worldwide to create new projects/songs is another advantage of an all in one platform.
4. Middlemen at live show ticket sales are another problem, which would be solved using a free open source decentralized solution.

I guess thats enough for now. Decentralization is certainly not the solution for all the problems, but it would be worth trying to reform the music biz in a way, that people pay lower prices to consume music and still the musician gets a fair share. Now the big part of the money goes to companies, which are practically doing nothing.

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A DECENTRALIZED P2P MUSIC CREATION AND DISTRIBUTION PLATFORM (DPMCDP)

As a musician with a 35+ years experience in many aspects of the music business, I think it is time to create a decentralized open source music platform for everyone involved including composers, musicians, producers, fans, media and the entire music business.


I would like to discuss with you guys, how a DPMCDP could look like and how this platform could be created.


I will sum up my ideas on this topic, but this project is meant to be completely open source and decentralized, so that everybody can do their part to make this thing happen.

So what should this platform be able to do:


1. MUSIC CREATION MODULE

This part is for composers, musicians, bands, producers, recording studios etc.

- Meeting point for music creators
- Virtual and decentralized rehearsal rooms/recording studios to produce music
- Authority rights registering system using Bitcoin/Lightning
- Possibility to distribute your own music on the platform and/or contact people from the music business

Needs: Sequencer with chat function. There are free apps out there that could be merged. Registering a composition for authority right could be based on Bitcoin or some other blockchain based crypto currency. Webspace could be created inspired by existing solutions like OpenBazaar¹, IPFS², Maidsafecoin etc.

Example:

I am a rock guitarist, who is looking for other musicians to start a new project. Now I can use the platform to connect to the p2p network and search for other musicians using filters and get in contact using PM or chat. I can also create a virtual 'rehearsal room', where people can enter using a password. This 'rehearsal room' is used for private conversation and music producing  with a simple Multi Track Sequencer and Audio Editor for mastering which is included. To use effects or improve the sound quality I can use free addons or I buy addons directly from a programmer.
Lets say I found the right people and we created our first song. We can now use the same software to release and sell the song on our decentralised 'Bandpage' to the Fans and we can also contact people from the music industry to help me with the distribution. (The songs are digitally signed and connected to the compositors with a time stamp using cryptography. FUCK ASCAP!



2. MUSIC DISTRIBUTION MODULE

This is the part for everyone else in the music business.

- Interface between music creators and music distributors
- Blockchain based payment system


Example:

I am a seller of band merchandise and I am looking for artists, that want to use my service. Since I already have a big customer base and good distribution channels, I can also help bands to sell their merchandise. I can use this platform to find and contact artists and I can create a shop, which is beeing saved in the decentralized network. I pay a very small fee to the network for that, so its worth it.




3. CONSUMERS MODULE

Here is the part for the Fans

- Music Player
- Interface between musicians/bands and fans

Needs: ,Music player, Chat, payment system, browser

 
Example:

Satoshi likes music and he uses the platform to find new music and support the artists he likes. He can use a low quality or short song preview and if he likes a song, he can buy it directly from the bandpage using crypto currency.
The money goes directly to the band. On the bandpage he can check if the band plays a show in his town and he can buy tickets and their merchandise. He can also contact the band through their webpage by chat and PM.


OK. I hope I can gain interest from musicians, music lovers and coders out there.

Let's discuss


¹ https://openbazaar.com/
² https://ipfs.io/

Best to learn is download and try: https://www.gpg4win.org/

Send/Recieve and store data secure with encryption

I am into both options since 2013. I am always there to stack more Satoshis, when the bears come out to play. Buying low, selling high and stacking some profits to hodl long term.  Some of the Bitcoins went into shopping at pump times, some I have given as gifts to newbies, some I have lost due to bad investments (gold for example was one of these in 2014 - shittiest investment I have ever made).

You gave your first answer in the duplicate topic. Never mind... I don't care. Have a nice day.

Another 'in depth' research' about Satoshis whereabouts. Not that it matters too much, but still interesting...

Spoiler

https://chainbulletin.com/satoshi-nakamoto-lived-in-london-while-working-on-bitcoin-heres-how-we-know/

If 'China' (you probably mean the chinese government) wants to 'takeover Bitcoin' (whatever that means...) they will quickly learn, that this operation will cost them billions of USD and the result will most likely be another shitcoin fork instead of a 'takeover'. Guys will say 'Oooops! Didn't work' and they will kick a sack of rice.

OP, I don't believe you! You made up that story for whatever reason. Maybe you found an old computer and are now having wet dreams about finding a hidden Bitcoin treasure or you are some hacker honk who found a generic password for a honeypot and are now having wet dreams about finding a hidden Bitcoin treasure. You never mined Bitcoins and your studies from 2009 were more likely about teletubbies than about Bitcoin. There was no zip file you recieved after mining and your whole story is bs!

This might be what you are looking for in case you decided to accept Bitcoin in your store: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver

@zasad@

Your questions look like a ragbag of senseless Bitcointalk topics ('How much will Bitcoin cost at the end of 2020?') and questions that have hundreds of pages in their specific topic ('What do you think of the current Merit system and signature campaigns?  Do they harm the forum?').
I don't see a reason why I should answer your low quality questionaire, which only purpose is to be posted in a special Bitcointalk interview topic, which has been moved to the 'Trading Discussion' section. No thanks bai.

The best Bitcoin bank is .....

My own wallet 

Why don't you just dig holes somewhere in this world to find diamonds. At least it would be by far more possible to find one.

This is why most of the criminals get caught. They think everything they don't have a clue about is sooo easy.
'...very difficult...' = possible
Did you try to exchange a big number of Bitcoins yet?
How easy do you think would it be to exchange, let's say only 100 BTC of the loot into USD or XMR without revealing your identity? Now imagine you need to exchange 120000 BTC...
Mixing these BTC will cost a fortune and still LE will be able to trace them.
The guys can send it from one address to another and still not be able to spend a Satoshi.

"Invest in Blockchain" doesn't exist 

I agree with 90% of your posting, but if your goal is to 'advance anything' in a public discussion forum, you might be in the wrong place. Everybody can come up with their fantasy stories and get either ignored or - in case of Franky1 - people get obsessed by the need to debunk every brain fart he sets free and fill 15 pages of 'CSW and Ira are colluding!' and 'No, they are not!'

I've been pointing that out for a long time. There is no tin foil hat necessary to assume, that Bitcoin affects US national security. In their centralized mindset they might have thought, that by corrupting the 'leaders of Bitcoin' it would be possible to gain control over the network. I would even bet, they are trying very hard to find weaknesses in the source code and/or infiltrate the development process.

C'mon Franky, noone here believes, that CSW is the inventor of Bitcoin and also noone here believes that CSW has 820k Bitcoin. Are you really that stupid?

You seem to be talking about yourself, because you are the one 'circling the endless squabble' about a shitty theory that makes no sense and you seem to be stuck in this idea, that you need to defend your rubbish thoughts in endless repeating posts. Is it because you only want to be right and the rest of the users in this topic are wrong? Why this fighting about a theory that has no proof? Maybe you should go and talk to a shrink about it.

Remember when I posted a link to a very well known website (Cryptome) and you attacked me, saying that I am only doing it to promote my own website? Not sure how you came to this conclusion, but it has been branded in your brain, just like this theory about the collusion Ira/CSW.

Narcissist never change, because they are trapped in their own opinion, which - to them - has more value than anybody elses.

Take me for example. I am not narcisstic like you. If it turns out that Ira and Craig are colluding I am probably the first one admitting that you were right. I don't expect the same from you, when your theory turns out to be complete bs. You will go silent about it and probably switch to your next fixed idea.

I'm done with this topic until the judge takes a decision.