The music industry has been dominated by big record labels for decades. They have the power to turn an emerging artist into a pop culture sensation. This golden ticket to wealth and fame unfortunately comes with many strings attached, and the music industry has developed a reputation for sucking the soul out of art in order to increase profits. With evolving technology, artists are empowered to cut out the middleman and take ownership of their career. A new movement is taking place in the world of music and art. It’s a movement around a decentralized crypto currency called bitcoin. Bitcoin …

The music industry, along with print journalism, is one of the most obvious examples of the Internet completely flipping something on its head. Previous to Spotify, iTunes and even Napster, we used to buy our music, fifteen, twenty bucks at a time, and get an easily scratched CD with two good songs on it and a lot of fluff. Today, things are different. Thanks in large part to the efforts of pirates and programmers, the music industry has been forced to give us a better deal: Unlimited streaming music for a low monthly fee or at worst, reasonably priced MP3s. …