Slides accompanying the presentation by Valerian Bennett, founder & CEO of PopChest, made to the Los Angeles Bitcoin Meetup on 12/1/2015 at WeWork Hollywood.

1. Bitcoin & the Blockchain for
the Entertainment Industry
Valerian Bennett
valerian@PopChest.com
founder & CEO, PopChest.com
Made in Silicon Beach

2. What is Bitcoin…to me?

3. - Rights
- Funding
- Distribution

4. Everything starts on the
written page

5. Why is assigning
ownership important?

6. Rights = Royalties

7. The benefits of
a public ledger

8. bitcoin the currency vs.
Bitcoin the blockchain

9. permissionless,
immutable

10. - Ascribe.io
- Bitproof.io
- ProofOfExistence.com

11. - Rights
- Funding
- Distribution

12. Ideas are easy.
GSD is hard.

13. Trends in
crowdfunding

14. Technology is forcing
the law’s hand

15. smart tokens,
digital asset issuance

16. 2.0 Open-source platforms:
Counterparty, Colored Coins, Ethereum

17. - Tatianacoin.com
- Colu.co
- Tokenly.com

18. - Rights
- Funding
- Distribution

19. Digital production
is democratized

20. Distribution as commodity
vs gatekeeper scarcity

21. No applause,
just throw money

22. micropayments,
real-time P2P royalties

23. programmable money,
smart contracts

24. - PopChest.com
- JoyStream.co
- BitTunes.org

25. Bitcoin as:
currency
public ledger
payment network
open-source platform

26. What happens to
Movie Studios, Television
Networks, Record Labels?

27. Bitcoin & the Blockchain for
the Entertainment Industry
Valerian Bennett
valerian@PopChest.com
founder & CEO, PopChest.com
Made in Silicon Beach