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A list of the artists and tracks we dug this month. Check out the music the Paperchain team were going through in October. Follow us on Spotify and listen to the tracks below. Burn, The Soft Moon Ripped,

The music industry’s shift from physical to digital revenue—and big data—has compounded inefficiencies in licensing, rights owner identification, and royalty distribution. A proxy example of this is the

An older distribution - "Drift" live on @Musicoin.

Latest distribution on @Musicoin. Enjoy!

The core seed idea of Paperchain came into conscious thought around May/June 2016. I wrote my first public words on it in July 2016. Rahul joined as co-founder in December 2016. At the time I was still

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of attending the latest lecture from The Polis Project's Dissent In Dangerous Times Series. The program is run by the inspiring Suchitra Vijayan and I encourage anybody

“Blockchain is a technology that allows natively digital transfer of value.” That line was buried in a Medium post by Karl Kreder, cofounder of Gridplus.io. The more I read it the more I think it’s the

Earlier this week the Securities and Exchange Commission handed down its ruling on crypto tokens as potential securities. The investigation was prompted after the DAO “hack” that saw $55 million redirected

Two days before I was due to fly to Liége to take part in the Wallifornia MusicTech Acceleration & Invest program, I was paralysed by an irrational—or rational—fear. I was unable to get out of bed.

The list below are titles that have been invaluable to my growth as a founder. They are mostly fictional. They are not books that will teach you sales frameworks, iteration methodology or operational

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident

A guide to blockchain technology and why it’s being proposed as a solution to many of the music industry’s woes. There’s a lot of discussion in the music industry right now around transparency and rights

For an industry so reliant on digital means, its infrastructure suggests that an old-school mentality framed digital development — and so we’re left with a fragmented and dysfunctional data infrastructure.

The Changing World of Music Royalties Today, the music industry generates over $160 billion in worldwide revenue, less than ten percent of which is from the sale of recorded music. As the industry evolves,