Blockchain 2025

We take a look at the dating industry: Nick tells us how he met his wife, his own experience with algorithms, and the science of compatibility.

Identity on the blockchain could lower dating fraud.

Decentralized personal information will enhance security for users.

New ways where blockchain can take this industry to another level: Sexual consent, true matches, validating reputation and matchmaking.

• Ponder App
• Loly
• Hicky
• Luna

On today's episode we'll be talking about the music: recorded music and concerts.

20 years ago, Napster and the MP3 crushed record labels and artist revenue.

With Spotify, the revenue model is finally recovering (slightly).

Still, iTunes, YouTube, Ticketmaster, and Live Nation control (monopolize?) the music and concert ticket industry.

Smart contracts can hold music rights information to ensure that artists, songwriters, producers, and everyone involved in the creation of a musical work get paid out correctly and efficiently.

Blockchain tech can help artists fund their projects.

We discuss:

• RecordGram / TuneToken - a better system for royalty transparency for artists.
• SingularDTV - tokenized ecosystem for artists
• Viberate - smart contracts in the negotiation between musicians, booking agencies and event organizers
• Guts Tickets - an app for artists, venues, and fans

Currently, with centralized ad platforms, there is no way to verify data.

Advertisers really don't know what they're always paying for. Same goes for the publishers.

As the popular media has shown, users have very little control over their personal information.

Facebook Ads and Google AdWords are incredibly powerful platforms.

Can they be disrupted?

Decentralized advertising projects: AdEX Brave

On today's episode we'll be talking about crypto debit cards.

You may be wondering why we chose this industry.

1. Many crypto debit card startups are emerging, and some with their own token and blockchain including TenX and Monaco
2. The ability to spend cryptocurrency via a debit card helps with user adoption.
3. The Comit network is on its way. A revolutionary instant payment processing network attempting to replace Visa and Mastercard.

Centralized payment processing networks work fairly well in the United States. Most cards are accepted globally and offer low or predictable merchant processing fees.

But it's a different story in developing countries.

On today's episode, we'll be talking about how blockchain technology will be impacting the identity verification industry.

Online fraud and identity hacks are a serious problem.

Identity theft, fraud cost consumers more than $16 billion in 2016.

We revisit the Equifax hack and the downsides of the current industry: companies becoming custodians of our data.

Your data can live in a centralized company data system forever, vulnerable to data thieves.

High school and college kids; Fake ids may be a thing of the past...

Two blockchain projects offering a solution to verify identity cheaper, faster, and MUCH more securely: Persona and Civic

Blockchain technology has the opportunity to enhance a broken industry for the better.

Today, we'll be talking about decentralized publishing platforms vs. centralized publishing platforms and how blockchain technology can improve the future of the publishing industry.

Let's take a look at the current state of centralized publishing, for example YouTube.

Essentially, you're building a house on somebody else's land. You're at the mercy of Google, their algorithms, and their rules.

Competitors flagging content for removal or "spam" is a serious problem which threatens business-minded content creators reliant on publishing income.

Also, with respect to monetization, the centralized platform is the gatekeeper. They determine what the revenue splits are, how and how often publishers will be paid, and what compensation rates will be.

Crypto startups trying to solve the current challenges of publishing: STEEMIT, Props, Po.et, Flixxo

Fine art is a 3 trillion dollar industry.

The market can be illiquid and difficult for collectors to not only find pieces they're looking for, but difficult for owners to sell.

Art galleries and dealers typically make the market.

Galleries and dealers can run up prices for inexperienced buyers and put them at a disadvantage.

Forget about museums, the overhead is through the roof and they often have to resort to selling their inventory to finance operating expenses.

What if a fan could buy a fractional share of their favorite painting?

A crypto company that is trying to solve the current challenges of art: Maecenas

Traditional gambling hasn't changed much over the years.

Trust, counterparty risk, inefficiency, regulation and fees continue to plague the gaming industry.

We take a look at projects like FunFair and Virtue Poker.

Gambling is one industry where decentralization, blockchain technology, and cryptocurrency can be utilized to elevate everything.

Amazon and eBay are leaders in the online marketplace industry. They have both been around for over 20 years! That is a long, long time in the internet game.

Could blockchain tech disrupt centralized online marketplaces and pave the way for decentralized marketplaces to take over?

• The history of Amazon and eBay • Current pros/cons of centralized marketplaces • Disrupting physical goods • Disrupting digital goods • The gig economy (Upwork Fiverr) • Coin startups like Particl, Syscoin, and District0x