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Cryptocurrency, Economy, Technology

NFT Markets without Cryptocurrency

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Several digital asset marketplaces are using the NFT model without the “risk” of using volatile cryptocurrency. Major League Baseball (MLB) just spun up their own NFT Marketplace leveraging the Candy NFT platform with a high degree of success so far.  Sports memorabilia collectors of traditional, physical assets are looking for a relatively safe investment especially when it comes to selling their investments.  There is no need to complicate the transaction with timing the sale with cryptocurrency fluctuations. This post dives into NFT Marketplaces that target particular [digital] asset classes.  The more aligned to a singluar asset type, the more personalized the buying and selling experience can be.  Buyers and sellers on a “generic” NFT marketplace will have a muted experience.

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Source: NFT Markets without Cryptocurrency – All About Digital Assets – Roseman Solutions LLC

Cryptocurrency, Work

Maison Reserve & Co. launches the world’s first cryptocurrency tethered to the supply and demand of consumer products

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Maison Reserve & Co. launches cryptocurrency tied to the supply and demand of their manufactured consumer products. A huge twist on “Cash Back”, where consumers are “gifted” cryptocurrency as their rewards. Flexible / wider margins exist on the wholesale of manufactured goods, and “white label” consumer retail brands. The wider the margins, the more loyalty incentive can be passed onto the customer in the form of % of the purchase, and the rewards in the form of cryptocurrency.

Maison Reserve manufactures products consumers regularly buy such as deodorant, lotion, or shampoo. They then sell their products at competitive market prices and give the customer 50-75% cashback in form of Maison Reserve crypto (MRSV) which can be swapped for USD, BTC, ETH, or used for buying more products on the Maison Reserve & Co. website and partner sites.

Significant opportunity for big-box retail companies, such as Costco with “white label” brands/products. The new business model provides “Cash Back” for purchases in the form of cryptocurrency, % of the retail purchase.

Even the logo is genius. “Made with …”

Made With

Click here for the press release.

Business, Technology, Twitter

Popular Tweets from January and February 2018

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Tweet Activity Analytics

Leveraging Twitter’s Analytics, I’ve extracted the Top Tweets from the last 57 day period (Jan 1 until today).   During that period, there were 46.8K impressions earned.

Summary:

  • 61 Link Clicks
  • 27 Retweets
  • 86 Likes
  • 34 Replies

Top Tweets for January and February 2018
Top Tweets for January and February 2018

Entertainment, Media, Technology

KODAKOne platform and KODAKCoin cryptocurrency | An Innovative Path Forward

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The KODAKOne image rights management platform will create an encrypted, digital ledger of rights ownership for photographers to register both new and archive work that they can then license within the platform. KODAKCoin allows participating photographers to take part in a new economy for photography, receive payment for licensing their work immediately upon sale, and sell their work confidently on a secure blockchain [cryptocurrency] platform.

Source: KODAKOne platform and KODAKCoin  | Kodak Graphic Communications Group

I’m really excited about these two technologies coming to fruition.  I believe there are several companies already in the digital asset enforcement and management space, such as embedded digital watermarks, so I’m curious how Kodak and WENN Digital will:

  • Crawl the digital landscape we call the Internet and identify potential infringements of licensing for specific digital photos.
  • The ability to “automatically” notify the person(s) or legal business entity who have been flagged for the infringement.
  • Enforcement of licensing or the removal of images.

I’m more skeptical re: Cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin.  However, with KODAKCoin, it gives me more to reflect upon.

Based on the minimum information currently released:

Government-backed regulation
This community [KODAKCoin] will be supported with a set of unique benefits only available by the issuance of KODAKCoin cryptocurrency via an SEC Regulated Initial Coin Offering (ICO).

Branded cryptocurrency could have some legitimate legs which are “relatable” to a wider audience of people who “don’t get it.”  Kodak still has a solid brand, and a business model to integrate the coin.