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Kodak shares up as it announces KODAKCoin cryptocurrency

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Re: Kodak shares up as it announces KODAKCoin cryptocurrency

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>Utilizing blockchain technology, the KODAKOne 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. With KODAKCoin, participating photographers are invited to take part in a new economy for photography, receive payment for licensing their work immediately upon sale, and for both professional and am…

This was always going to be the end result of blockchain and cryptocurrency. It was one of the original criticisms of the tech - that "every company would make it's own coin".

Smart Contracts are never going to be as popular because they are neither very smart or the same as regular contracts - and have more overhead and larger vunerability anyhow.

Re: Kodak shares up as it announces KODAKCoin cryptocurrency

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I don't get the value in the ICO. Photographer licenses image on KodakONE, receives KodakCOIN as payment. KodakONE uses blockchain to sell and protect the image from theft down the line. KodakONE uses lawyers to DMCA those who don't attribute or pay for the image.

The same problem can be solved if they just used Ethereum

Re: Kodak shares up as it announces KODAKCoin cryptocurrency

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Short kodak.

Why? They're using the blockchain for what most people said it was supposed to be used.

I'm actually pleasantly surprised they're moving forward with some innovation and I guess the stock rise reflects that.

OTOH yes, I'm pessimistic they'll actually accomplish something, but who knows? I don't know if the market will discount this soon.

Re: Kodak shares up as it announces KODAKCoin cryptocurrency

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>The initial coin offering...is open to accredited investors Is this fairly common now? Most of the ICOs I've read about before were basically open to everyone.

This is SEC rules for ICOs. ICOs that don't have that limit are a) likely scams or at best b) probably a gigantic legal mess.

Re: Kodak shares up as it announces KODAKCoin cryptocurrency

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I don't get the value in the ICO. Photographer licenses image on KodakONE, receives KodakCOIN as payment. KodakONE uses blockchain to sell and protect the image from theft down the line. KodakONE uses lawyers to DMCA those who don't attribute or pay for the image.

The same problem can be solved if they just used Ethereum

The same problem can be solved if they just used a bit of PHP in 1995.

The killer feature is "lawyers armed with DMCA", not the crypto-themed CRUD app.

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