[ContentBox launching exclusively on Huobi Pro at 11AM SGT on July 17]

ContentBox launching exclusively on Huobi Pro at 11AM SGT on July 17

Information
ContentBox Castbox
Whitepaper
Twitter
GitHub
Airdrop
Bounty Program

Introduction
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For over a decade we have witnessed explosive growth of the digital content industry led by a variety of
web and mobile content platforms such as Reddit, Youtube, and Spotify. It has become an indispensable
part of our modern daily life, with audio and video streaming constituting 70% of Internet data traic.
However, the success and fairness of the industry is impeded by several long-standing challenges facing
creators, consumers, advertisers, and distributors of digital content.

Our First Partner - Castbox
Top Tier Podcast Player on Android & iOS
Castbox is one of the most popular mobile audio platforms across the globe, ranked #3 in News &
Magazines on Google Play along with TopBuzz and Twitter, gaining 17.2 million users worldwide. It pioneered in-audio search
to deliver contextual recommendations for listeners of podcasts, on-demand radio, and audiobooks.
Today, Castbox has about 50 employees with offices in Beijing, San Francisco, New York, and Hong
Kong.


Token Utility
In the short term, BOX tokens will be Castbox’s primary transaction currency. Holders can use it to purchase the premium membership, promote their creative content or participate in contests within the app. Once it's rolled out, holders will be able to spend BOX beyond Castbox. Essentially all payments running on all apps developed under ContentBox will be settled in BOX tokens. We are aiming to build an ecosystem that allows for an open, fair, and creator-centric decentralized marketplace for both content creators and consumers, a native crowdfunding launchpad for aspiring projects, a decentralized "AdSense" for content platforms without any middleman, etc.

Team Members
Renee Wang: Founder & CEO of Castbox
Alex He: Co-founder & CTO of Castbox
Gang Hu: CTO
Xiaohui Liu: Blockchain Scientist
Fangqin Dai: Tech Lead
Yiqiang Wang: Head of R&D

ContentBox/Castbox in the Press
Bitcoin Magazine: "Podcast Platform Castbox Launches Blockchain Project to Reward Creators"
Forbes: "Startup Of The Week: Castbox"
Bloomberg: "Ex-Googler Bet Her Own House on Podcasts and Raised $13 Million"
Crunchbase: "Castbox Raises $13.5 Million Series B To Scale Its Cross-Platform Podcast App
Observer: "Podcasting App Transcribes Shows for Better Search"

Funding Update
We have reached the hardcap through private sale, and have been working closely with several exchanges. Please stay tuned for our official announcement for listing information.

The accelerating growth of crypto space has been nothing short of extra-ordinary. However, its attractiveness as an investment option far outweighed its actual use cases.

Adoption of this technology by existing players with large user bases would give it the kind of legitimacy that would help further drive its mass adoption. And the actual use cases would also start to proliferate.

After Huawei decided last week to pre-install bitcoin wallet in all its future manufactured phones, now CastBox has decided to bring its existing user base of over 15 million users to the crypto world through its new product - ContentBox. What CastBox, one of the largest spoken audio platforms in the world, has done can become a trendsetter for the rest of players with millions of userbase as well.

Here, actual use case already existed which was responsible for growing the user base to million of users for CastBox. What cryptocurrencies will do is provide superior incentive structure for the participants to create an efficient network market as compared to what exists at present. In the case of ContentBox, CastBox team is aiming to create a global content payment infrastructure run on the basis of tokenomics and blockchain technology.

The presale of ContentBox token (BOX) is currently going on and will end on May 15, 2018. The price is 19,200 BOX/ETH and the total allocation is 15 million BOX. The token is being offered on EPIC.

Why such a unified global decentralized payout system supported by a shared pool of content creators and users is bound to work is because it facilitates disintermediation. Right now, platform owner (publisher) extracts most of the value created by the content ecosystem and this platform owner is nothing but a middlemen connecting content creators and content consumers/users. If replaced by an in-house token which are distributed among the content creators and content consumers (e.g. in the form of rebate for providing their attention) on the basis of meritocracy without needing a controlling platform entity. Blockchain technology enables the right incentive structure at the protocol level and thus ensures meritocracy-based immutable rules.

ContentBox is going to have the following three major components:

i) BOX Payout - This overcomes the limitation of current smart contract platforms and enables fast multiparty contingent payments on a global scale. The payments can automatically be triggered when something of value happens in the ContentBox ecosystem, i.e., when any content is consumed by a user. So, even 'Play' and 'Pause' clicks can drive transactions in the underlying BOX token automatically without needing to spend an extra redundant time to make the payment first before content consumption. This is also going to ensure efficiency as the payment will be very efficiency linked to the actual content consumption.
Also, to ensure privacy of user history, it wouldn't be relying on public blockchains of current smart contract platforms.

ii) BOX Passport - ContentBox will itself be a blockchain-based infrastructure for the decentralized digital content industry. This will be based on a blockchain-based identity and attribution service owned by the users/content creators themselves and working across multiple applications. And content creators will be able to smoothly receive payouts on multiple applications using ContentBox.


iii) BOX Unpack - This solution will let content streaming platforms to integrate easily with ContentBox. BOX Unpack also comes with proprietary Deep Search Technology and Natural Language Processing which will be completely sponsored by ContentBox, making its value proposition further strong for existing content streaming platforms to consider join ContentBox.

Although highly ambitious in nature, ContentBox gets a major share of its credibility from its founding team which has successfully build a great product previously in the form of CastBox. Additionally, the team has previously worked with top companies including Google, Facebook, Xiaomi and Kaitong Finance.

[Blockchain Inside]

Guys, I think you might be interested in a podcast called Blockchain Inside produced by Purdue Blockchain Lab and CastBox.

Purdue Blockchain Lab is a research group at Purdue University focusing on Blockchain and simulation, Blockchain for IoT and Supply Chain, Blockchain for Big Data and AI and its underlying technologies.
Each week Blockchain Inside releases two short interviews with blockchain specialists that offer insight into the technology and community. Please give it a listen if you're interested

Link: https://castbox.fm/x/GNjf

It feels like forever that our daily digital lives have been controlled and shaped by just a few big centralized platforms. We watch video content primarily on YouTube and Netflix. We curate music playlists on Spotify and Pandora. We rekindle old friendships and start new ones via Facebook. Chatting, liking and sharing digitally are all relatively new phenomena.

The Internet was around long before these big central platforms existed. The big players emerged in the wake of the rapidly growing web and mobile industries. Today, the platforms are like a giant black box to content creators and consumers alike.

Inside this giant black box, tech giants buy traffic from various sources; they attract content creators and help curate their work; they build server farms and purchase bandwidth, so consumers can access multimedia servers; they sell ads to make money. They are so good at doing all of this that most of us would soon relinquish our ability to choose and let them monopolize our daily life online.

Is today’s world of digital content optimal?

Creators are exploited and struggle to profit from their work. Distribution channels absorb much of the creators’ revenue and the creators resort to paying the platforms to increase their chance of getting discovered.

Users aren’t rewarded for curating and spreading good content. We share our personal data with the platform, sit through long ads and often pay subscription fees. What do we get in return?

Creators and users deserve a better system. We have a chance to build it with Blockchain technology. It’s time to shape a new digital content ecosystem that values fairness. In this world, creators need not pay 30% of their revenue to the platform. Actively engaged users who share content will be free from ads. Everyone will access apps under one identity and a single account. Users own their personal data and won’t need to fear privacy leaks.

So, what are we waiting for? Let’s open the black box.

Original link of this article: https://medium.com/@Contentbox_one/is-todays-digital-content-ecosystem-flawed-c7c371548591
Please follow ContentBox's bounty plan: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3293511.0

[소개]

소개


ContentBox는 크립토커런시 BOX 캐시 (BOX)의 블록체인 프로젝트입니다. BOX는 디지털 컨텐츠를 위한 분산형 생태계 구축의 첫번째 단계입니다. 웹사이트 https://contentbox.one에서 확인하실 수 있습니다.

ContentBox의 첫번째 파트너인 Castbox (https://castbox.fm/)가 분산 블록체인 기반 앱을 개척하고 사용자에게 디지털 콘텐츠의 보안, 사용 및 배포할 수 있는 BOX를 소개합니다. Castbox는 현재 135 개국에서 1,500 만 명이 넘는 유저를 가진 선도적인 팟캐스트 앱입니다.

에어드롭

에어드롭에 참여하여 최대 260개의 BOX 토큰을 확보하십시오.
1 BOX ≈ $ 0.05 (cryptocurrency 시장 기반)
다음은 단계별 가이드입니다.


1. Castbox 웹 사이트 https://castbox.fm/에서 Castbox를 다운로드하고 설치하고 등록하십시오 / 로그인하십시오. iOS와 Android를 모두 지원합니다.


2. 오른쪽 하단의 '개인 설정' 탭을 클릭한 다음 '내 지갑'을 클릭하십시오.


3. "내 지갑"에는 BOX 토큰을 무료로 제공하는 세 가지 방법인 친구 초대, 텔레그램 그룹 가입 및 추천 코드 입력이 있습니다. 여기에서 BOX 토큰 잔액을 확인할 수도 있습니다. 질문이 있으시면 자주하는 질문을 반드시 확인하십시오!


4. "친구 초대"를 클릭하여 고유한 추천 코드를 받으세요. "지금 초대"를 클릭해서 받은 코드를 복사하여 카톡 등으로 친구에게 추천 코드를 보내실 수 있습니다.


5. 친구가 Castbox를 설치하면 추천 코드를 입력하도록 요청하고 각자에게 10 개의 BOX 토큰을 받게됩니다. 여러 명의 친구를 초대하고 최대 200 개의 BOX 토큰을 얻을 수 있습니다.


6. "텔레그램 그룹 가입"을 클릭하고 먼저 추천 코드를 복사하십시오. 그런 다음 "그룹보기"를 클릭하여 Box Community에 가입 할 수 있습니다. 그룹 채팅에 추천 코드를 입력하면 50 개의 BOX 토큰을 추가로 얻을 수 있습니다.

[Introduction]

Introduction

ContentBox is a blockchain project with its cryptocurrency BOX Token (BOX). It’s the first step in building a decentralized ecosystem for digital content. Check out our website at https://contentbox.one

Castbox (https://castbox.fm/), the first partner of ContentBox, will pioneer a decentralized blockchain-based app and introduce BOX to its users in securing, consuming, and distributing digital content. Castbox now is the leading podcast App with over 16 million registered users from 135 different countries.

Distribution of community bounty program tokens has started!



Step by step guide:

1. Head over to the bounty website: https://community.contentbox.one/

2. Enter your ERC20 address in the wallet, tokens will be distributed within three business days

Disclaimer: This campaign strictly follows the rules and policies on all related social platforms (Twitter, Reddit, Telegram and etc.). Any type of spam will be banned immediately if you violate these rules and policies.

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Update: Airdrop has concluded, points conversion process is ongoing.

Airdrop

Join our token airdrop to get unlimited BOX tokens for free.
1 BOX ≈ $0.05 (Based on the cryptocurrency market)
Airdrop link: https://contentbox.one/airdrop/index.html
 
Below is the step by step guide.


1. Earn 10 points by logging in your Telegram below and becoming a new member of our Telegram group. Every point will convert into one BOX token when the airdrop ends.

2. Invite your friends to the group. We’ll reward you with a random amount of points (up to 20) for each valid* invite.


3. Follow our official Twitter account for 10 extra points! https://twitter.com/Contentbox_one

4. By the end of the airdrop, the Top 20 most connected community members will be rewarded! Prize details for each individual that invited the most friends are listed below.
No.1: 1000 points
No.2-5: 250 points
No.6-10: 100 points
No.11-20: 50 points


5. If the group reaches 80K members by June 25, we’ll release an additional 100K tokens distributed equally to each community member that takes part in this round of airdrop.

You'll be able to convert your points starting from 0AM UTC June 26**

*Your friend remains a member of our community prior to the airdrop ends.

**Your points will be voided if there’s any misconduct.

More threads
ContentBox main thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3898690.0
Bounty campaign: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3898137.0

Per my understanding, current cryptocurrencies are not suitable for payment since their value is not stable. So they are more like a cryptoasset.
Will anybody use bitcoin to pay for a coffee now?
USDT is a solution since it provide a stable value, but it is actually not a decentralized currency.
Is there any solution to have a decentralized solution and at the same time with a stable value?
I think there is a big opportunity to make a cryptocurrency that has a stable value and could be used for payment.

Guess more and more exchange will reduce the fees and more and more player will come in.