AOTB EPISODE 6 - BLOCKCHAIN NEWS RECAPPED

ART ON THE BLOCKCHAIN Podcast

Follow us on our new twitter account @AOTB_PODCAST 1. Protostarr.io shut down after less than a month of fundraising on August 31. According to their press release, they were contacted by the SEC on August 24 regarding their ICO and decided to cease operations. They are returning funds received starting on September 2. https://protostarr.io/press-releases/protostarr-shutting-down/ https://protostarr.io/ 2. Artist T.I. joined FLiK as co-owner on August 20. FLiK is touted as a video streaming platform that “gives creatives the ability to self-distribute their film or television show to a global audience” according to their website. Using their blockchain-based ecosystem, film makers can raise funding for their films and tv shows and can rent or purchase FLiK tokens on its platform. FLiK was founded by Ryan Felton, an entertainment exec in Atlanta with artist T.I. as a co-owner. Tony Gallippi is on their advisory board. According to their website, the company’s goals are to 1. Develop an online distribution platform and 2. Fund a slate of unique and creative entertainment projects. Theflik.io Theflik.io/white-paper.html 3. Rakugo launched a digital publishing tokenization platform on August 20. This new company began its ICO offering on August 19 and ends it on September 19. As of 2:26 pm 9/12/17, they raised 356.19 ETH or the equivalent of $103,971.86 USD and have 148 investors. According to their website, they are a “secure, decentralized publishing platform that rewards contributors with revenue and exposure for their content.” In addition to blockchain timestamping, they are promoting a “smart publishing” feature called “Shogun” which tracks search engine trending topics – known as “cross dependence temporal topic model” or CDTTM. Brendan Playford and Wyatt Meldman-Floch are co-founders and both have backgrounds in physics. Rakugo.co 4. Viberate live music venue service ICO launched on September 5 and is co-founded by DJ UMEK. They were able to close in 4 minutes and forty-two seconds according to UrbanCrypto.com, and hit their hard cap of 38,000 ETH and all 120 million Viber coins were sold. https://themerkle.com/viberates-ico-will-launch-on-september-5th-to-techno-music/ urbancrypto.com/viberate-ico-closes hacked.com/ico-analysis-viberate-io viberate.com 5. Twitter's new terms of service with regard to content posted - https://twitter.com/en/tos Effective 10/2/2017 6. Los Angeles artist Nipsey Hussle has invested in a cryptocurrency project called “Follow Coin” based in Amsterdam. http://www.hiphopdx.com/news/id.44473/title.nipsey-hussle-invests-in-new-cryptocurrency-venture followcoin.io 7. A visual art installation called “Artcoin Miner” opened on August 19 at the Jumala Art Fair. https://exante.eu/press/news/1144/ https://www.slideshare.net/EXANTE/blockchain-and-fine-art-how-the-technology-could-change-the-art-market 8. Another ICO called Artcoin fund was advertised as “the first decentralized conduit to support a democratized art collection” on their Twitter page. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2017582.0 https://s3.amazonaws.com/artcoin.fund/docs/artcoin-whitepaper.pdf 9. http://www.ibtimes.com/why-artists-art-collectors-love-blockchain-technology-2584019 10. LuxTag claims to have created a “blockchain-powered application to cater the market of anti-counterfeit (brand protection)/ anti-theft (ownership tagging) & manufacturer big-data (visualization interactions with items), serving the market with a solution – ready to implement” according to their website. https://medium.com/luxtag-live-tokenized-assets-on-blockchain - luxury consumer products tracking luxtag.io Bitcoin Tips: 1D3DYP4nBC5DqTm1g5GeKf1uWeemLipwpY