Well, letting my creative side out didn't gen up very many views to this article, so I am rebooting it!

We truly wrote it with a focus on using song to teach about crypto and blockchain. If you don't get it, then introduce the song to your kids and let them explain it to you.

After watching Tim Draper rap a song about crypto, I had to go out and look to see if there was a true blockchain/crypto anthem out there. While there are a few good songs and A LOT of really bad ones, I decided to write my thoughts about what would make up an anthem honoring the creation of cryptocurrency and blockchain.

After putting my initial words down in poetic form, I recruited one of my Startup Life entrepreneurs, Arthur Chapman who is a musician, to join the effort. Together, we refined the wording and then started working with Akeem Wells on the instrumentals, sounds, and production. We wanted a tune that would make people start to groove right-off-the-beat, then bounce, jump, and finish off with shouting and fist pumping.

I believe we accomplished our goal! Of course, I wanted to give several layers of credit to the community. I will share those references in the lyrics below.

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Below is a run through the lyrics and then explanations I use to teach about blockchain and cryptocurrency.

"Blockchain Movement"

(Blockchain is the underlying technology created by Bitcoin and supporting virtually all cryptocurrencies. Further, blockchain presents opportunities for disruptive innovation not only making legacy processes more efficient but also enabling the creation of whole new global business models with less friction and more trust.)

I trust the chain

I trust the chain

I trust the chain xxx

I trust the chain xxx

Verse 1

People, hashing out business with other people (that’s how it's supposed to be)

(Hashing is generating a value or values from a string of code using a mathematical function enabling security during the process of messaging when intended for a specific recipient. It is also an efficient method of sorting key values in a ledger.)

Looking through the ether,

(This references when we first looked at blockchain platforms to launch UhX on, we passed up Ethereum and elected to develop on NEO. Ethereum has the goal of using blockchain to replace internet third parties -- those that store data, transfer mortgages and keep track of complex financial instruments as a platform to all.)

Checking the market cap

My wealth is well within my reach, it's secure

We're gonna hash, we're gonna dash

(Dash is another cryptocurrency.)

Like Friedman 1999

Trade my Bitcoin for Stellar, on a decentralized ledger.

(Stellar is a blockchain platform that connects banks, payments systems, and people. UhX recently switched from NEO to Stellar to move payment for health services worldwide quickly, reliably, and at nearly no cost. You can read our justification for this switch in my article Comparative Assessment of NEO, ETH and Stellar.)

Move my crypto around the world.

Chorus

I Trust The Chain

When I'm in doubt

I Trust The Chain

Are You In or You Out

I Trust The Chain

UhX or the DAO

(UhX is the currency of Universal Health Coin with plans to ICO the first week of July 2018; the DAO is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization that is run through rules encoded as computer programs called smart contracts. The most infamous “DAO” had to have their investor capital rescued after the DAO's decentralized investment fund got hacked.)

I Trust The Chain

Are You In or You Out

Come Join The Blockchain Movement

Put in your cash and HODL

(HODL is a slang term used in the Bitcoin community referring to holding the cryptocurrency rather than selling it. It originated in a 2013 post on the Bitcoin Forum by an inebriated user who posted with a typo in the subject, "I AM HODLING.")

We don’t need the traditional

Come Join The Blockchain Movement

Support a project, get some crypto

Middleman can’t hold us back no more

(Because of the trust, some say trustlessness, created through blockchain technology, there is no need for middlemen such as banks, third-party administrators, and the like needed to provide the trust humans desire from other humans because it exists within the blockchain processes.)

Verse 2

*whispered* Satoshi

*spoken* “a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash,

online payments from one to another

with no third to provide”…..Trust

(These words come directly from the first lines of the Bitcoin White Paper written by the person or persons called Satoshi Nakamoto whom is honored as the creator of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, and the original movement.)

People supporting people, benefits the community

Consensus all around, we took the middle man out, open source with no sole ownership

(Consensus in the blockchain ecosystem occurs when the distributed operators - including any entity, individual, or party who submits information to the blockchain - of the blockchain must evaluate and agree on that information before it is permanently incorporated into the blockchain.) (Open Source has been around as long as computer coding denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.)

Rewarding for performance to consumers and providers

(The only way we can change human behavior is to incentivize that human through rewards or punishment. Within the blockchain community, tokens and cryptoassets are used to reward users, consumers, and providers of service.)

Move my crypto around the world

Chorus

[Repeat the above]

Bridge/Chant

I trust the chain

Trust the chain x3

I trust the chain

Trust the chain x3

I trust the chain

Trust the chain x3

I trust the chain

Trust the chain x3

Chorus

I Trust The Chain

When I'm in doubt

I Trust The Chain

Are You In or You Out

I Trust The Chain

UHX or the DAO

I Trust The Chain

Are You In or You Out

-Fade out-

-song ends-

We hope you enjoyed listening and learning. Make sure you connect with me so when the song is released for public use, we'll be able to let you know.

Be well, Dr. Gordon Jones

Dr. Jones is a co-founder, President & COO of Universal Health Coin, co-founder and Entrepreneur in Residence at theClubhou.se, and a bunch of other stuff.