Had an awesome chat with Soundposition yesterday. Next time, more people should join in.  Some thoughts from the discussion: 1) Crowdfund the buying of several music software licences and sell it for FUNK at a discount to kickstart the currency. 2) Get a big name on board. This will catalyse the project tremendously. Easily, another 10 - 20+ will get involved. 3) Get a champion to help support us financially so we can inject some liquidity in the market. 4) Crowdfund a gig. A band needs to come forth with a proposal, how it much it will cost, and what they will do in return to promote Cypherfunks. Or if they even want to just gig as "The Cypherfunks". For example, we could Soundposition to get a dj set going somewhere. I think that was it? Michael? All, in all. Great fun. Next time, let's get more people involved.  |
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BTW Hyperbits contacted me to let me know the link is back up if anyone wants to download the samplepack.
Sweet! See later! And thanks. |
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We are still down for that hangout at 6pm (SA time) later? GMT+2. In about 5h45min time. |
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Nice! Hyperbits released a monster sample pack for free. http://hyperbitsmusic.com/samplepack/Asked him if he could throw up a FUNK address.  If you are on Twitter, you can also ask him. @hyperbits. Wins Dropbox took the file down.  Ah bummer. @ipadbroken: hopefully the cryptocurrency adds some glue to the whole network and not just icing. Welcome! |
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Nice! Hyperbits released a monster sample pack for free. http://hyperbitsmusic.com/samplepack/Asked him if he could throw up a FUNK address. If you are on Twitter, you can also ask him. @hyperbits. Wins |
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And I matched the then total of 3.1 mil, so there should of been plenty!! I'm still keeping some of the bounty in case someone else wants to do faucet that you don't have to pay hosting for (paying 0.0055btc/month atm). I paid for 3 months. I'll top up at the faucet with the bounty funds when it becomes depleted. @mckmuze Looking forward to what you are planning. Keep us posted! |
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Good point.
Or even like you stated earlier. Online gig even.
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I messaged kompoz and asked if they would accept FUNK for gift cards. Long shot, but worth a try. > How can FUNK be used to benefit the musicians? That is the goal of the Cypherfunks. We can continuously help each other make music, only by making sure that FUNK can help put food on our table and so forth. I still think the easiest project is to try and sponsor a gig. A small gig for a band just wanting to hire a small venue? Only requirement is that they print some FUNK paper wallets and hand it out at the gig. Depends on pricing, who is playing, etc. And we can start within the community. Just a thought. |
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I like where your head is at: especially with regards to paying attention to "mainstream" users. People who aren't necessarily interested in all the parts that make up a cryptocurrency.
I'll definitely give your idea some thought. It definitely gives rise to some interesting possibilities.
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I think the idea of an open source band is amazing.
People all over the world will be like 'I saw the Cypherfunks play live last night,' but none of them will be talking about a band made up of the same people!
Imagine how flooded YouTube is going to be with music by the Cypherfunks (because anyone can use the name)!
Sounds chaotic, confusing, and wonderful. The cryptocurrency would be like icing on the cake.
I don't really think YouTube is getting flooded with people flocking to use the name Cypherfunks. Right now, I think many musicians make music hoping it will benefit themselves somehow. They restrict the licenses granted for their music, thinking one day they will be like The Who, and get played over and over again on the radio earning royalties forever. Not very likely... We are laborers of love, hoping we will be fairly compensated for our work. Although that is rarely the case. Putting my FUNK address in my signature doesn't compel people to send me FUNK. It's like the tip hat that sits there while everyone just walks on by. I think musicians look at the Cypherfunks, and at first glance think it can't help them potentially, because they would have to release their music for free. That can easily change with the addition of automatic pay-per-stream technology, where FUNK is automatically spent from a listeners account balance to pay the musicians when a song is played. I'm thinking of doing an experiment where I perform a live performance from my studio, and pre-sell the tickets in FUNK. After the show, one winner will be randomly selected to win a Prize.. I haven't decided what the prize is yet. I'll work out the details and keep you posted. That sounds cool! @fgtlss Yes, vote. And also, spread the music: https://soundcloud.com/groups/the-cypherfunks |
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I'm not a big fan of Google+, and I refuse to have a profile. I didn't like how they tried to coerce me into having one multiple times. I made an appear.in hangout: https://appear.in/cypherfunksYou can pop in anytime, but we should set a time. Saturday, May 24 at 12:00 Noon ESTLet me know if that doesn't work for anyone, and we can try and reschedule it. I'm unfortunately away from 11-31 May (travelling through Europe). So not sure at all if I'll be able to make that date. Alright, sounds like fun Simon! Let's do one this week? How about Friday, May 9th @ 12:00 Noon EST (6:00 P.M. Cape town time)? Washington DC (U.S.A. - District of Columbia) Friday, May 9, 2014 at 12:00:00 Noon EDT UTC-4 hours Cape Town (South Africa) Friday, May 9, 2014 at 6:00:00 PM SAST UTC+2 hours Albuquerque (U.S.A. - New Mexico) Friday, May 9, 2014 at 10:00:00 AM MDT UTC-6 hours Los Angeles (U.S.A. - California) Friday, May 9, 2014 at 9:00:00 AM PDT UTC-7 hours Corresponding UTC (GMT) Friday, May 9, 2014 at 16:00:00 So far it sounds like a plan! May 9th 12:00 Noon EST. |
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I'm not a big fan of Google+, and I refuse to have a profile. I didn't like how they tried to coerce me into having one multiple times. I made an appear.in hangout: https://appear.in/cypherfunksYou can pop in anytime, but we should set a time. Saturday, May 24 at 12:00 Noon ESTLet me know if that doesn't work for anyone, and we can try and reschedule it. I'm unfortunately away from 11-31 May (travelling through Europe). So not sure at all if I'll be able to make that date. |
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@soundposition @madcow Yeah. I'll try and spend my free time on looking into porting Min.io to FUNK. . Would be cool! I spoke to one of the guys from citysoiree ( http://www.citysoiree.co.za/ <- site to crowdfund gigs in South Africa), if they want to experiment about using FUNK for one of the gigs. He digs Cypherfunks, so he said it's definitely something consider. I think it would be an awesome milestone for us if we can crowdfund our first gig! @mckmuze Very, very fascinating ideas. One of the more difficult parts is to actually with cryptographic verifiability use the music to interact with the blockchain. It's no mean feat. But you give some interesting ideas. If you could make for example, an independently verifiable queue of the Cypherfunks songs (randomised playing), you could then do things like matching block payouts to music. ie, each block, automatically pays out part of the mining reward to a song on the network. Something like that. I like your ideas! Keep it coming! Keep it coming! |
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First of all, I just want to say, I love what I am seeing. This is right in line with my thinking. My name is Brady, I am a musician and crypto addict. lol I have been trying to find others interested in utilizing these technologies in a way that will rewrite the rules of music creation.
I am just now getting involved, I have some music I will submit. I also have some ideas we could all work with.
Have any of you used Kompoz? I think we could utilize it for collaboration and eventually build our own. We could create a pay per play system like nobs.is has on Cryptr, pay users Funk to listen and even develop a reddit style upvote system for songs or even snippets of audio. Allow people to use funk to vote for a riff, verse, etc. The more you listen the more you can actually shape the music as a listener by spending your generated funk.
Also if a multi pool was created for Funk we could do some REALLY interesting things. Like hardware based open source music streaming/ASIC boxes. I literally have thought about the possibilities for way too long. Someone please help me get a group hangout together to make things happen. I am spewing with ideas. yes I said spewing... lol
I would love to get a Google hangout together and hash out some ideas. I have thought long and hard about crypto and the music industry. I would love to collaborate ideas. A few others are doing things with music and crypto, we need to round these people up and get everyone talking.
Hey Brady! Welcome. Dig the tune you made. For those who haven't heard: https://soundcloud.com/bradymckenna/dr-j-and-mr-h. Add a FUNK address so we can tip you. I actually dig the idea of using FUNK to "vote" for a riff/melody/drum beat they'd like to see in a song. That way we can go a bit more crazy in terms of churning out creative ideas (rather than fully fleshed out songs). Thoughts? There's no reason why we could use Kompoz anyway. Get collaborators onto our idea. I see you can buy gift-cards... hmmm... I'm going to drop them a mail and see if they want to accept FUNK [because why not?]. Whoa, I like the idea of making custom ASICs that combine mining + streaming. That's pretty far out. Elaborate a bit more! I like the ideas. Keep them flowing. @soundposition: A bounty would be great, but I wouldn't want to feel obligated to finish something by a certain time. I try to dev work in when I can. Busy working with n00bnoxious on getting that DNS seed node running so we can finish the android wallet. After that, it's more feature building [most likely trying to port over min.io to FUNK]. |
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The easiest way to do this without forming additional governance structures is to simply inject capital into the coin. fwiw, we've been thinking of repurposing http://min.io (old side-project developed with a friend) to work with FUNK. But I wouldn't do it to sell the music. The music should be free (as much as possible). Also, how do we divide up sales? Theoretically, anyone has permission to re-sell it for their own gain, but it's not ideal. I agree with the part about injecting capital (as I said the FUNK needs to be worth something), although simply buying up FUNK on the exchange is going to convince people to pump and dump the FUNK. If people thought they could make easy BTC by selling FUNK on the exchange, nobody would hold onto the FUNK coins to spend. If we had some incentive for people to spend their FUNK coins, then we would have something. That's why we need something like CoinLock or min.io to allow digital content to be exchanged for FUNK. Yep. I agree! |
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