First off, I’m going to answer an unasked question: hell yes, SKY FOLK as a company and I (as myself) are interested in crypto! With the internet, as a creator, I do not need to find an agent or a publisher to get my work in front of people (you) and your friends (thank you for sharing) and YOU don’t either. Thank you Internet! As we add the layer of ‘Crypto’ as an evolution or an extension of the utility of the internet we have quick, fee-less micro-transactions that enable incentive loops across the internet that benefit creative folks AND the viewers of their content. The coming years will find you in need of banks, accountants, lawyers, traditional money, direct employers and all the complications that come with all of those things far less. This isn’t the place to go into that though, but, cool stuff comin’.

DISCLAIMER: gonna explain blockchain real quick. You can safely skip the next two paragraphs if you just want to find out how to get started blockin’ ads and tippin’ folk (and if you’re a creator, gettin’ tipped).

If you’ve been wondering what the terms ‘blockchain’ and ‘crypto’ mean; they are terms that refer to technology that makes possible a ledger (a stored account of totals), that a network of computers on the internet can help keep accurate and that no one person/entity can alter without consent. The ledger is then a distributed system/technology that exists across a bunch of ‘nodes’ (computers/devices) instead of just a single one (central server, hackable, a database), every transaction recorded in the ledger is added onto the ‘chain’ as a inside a ‘block’ of transactions - ‘Blockchain’. The blocks are confirmed through intense cryptography (math and stuff) -so, ‘Crypto’.

How does it work? Basically, when a transaction takes place (Person X wants to send Person Y $2) in this network, the nodes (computers) start to ‘confirm’ the validity of that transaction; the nodes all start doing math... When enough confirmations go through, Person x’s total goes down by $2, Person Y’s total goes up by $2. The difference here is that no bank was involved, no single point of data was manipulated and no physical asset needed to exist for the value transfer to take place! Cool! We didn’t even have to trust anyone in order to make sure everything went smoothly. So, what does this type of transacting do for creators? Well, it does three main things: