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Blockchain-based Platform for Guitar Players Whitepaper version 1.8 Last Updated: April 12, 2018 *This whitepaper is constantly being developed and updated with additional information on BitChord’s development progress, team additions, economic structure and more. Check back regularly to make sure you have the most up-to-date version.

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Blockchain-based Platform for Guitar Players

Whitepaper version 1.8

Last Updated: April 12, 2018

*This whitepaper is constantly being developed and updated with additional information on BitChord’s development progress, team additions, economic structure and more. Check back regularly to make sure you have the most up-to-date version.

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Legal disclaimer

Potential purchasers of BitChord Tokens (as referred to in this Whitepaper) must carefully consider and

evaluate all risks and uncertainties associated with BitChord, the companies’ operations, the Crowdsale,

and all information presented in this whitepaper and the BitChord business plan, the technical documents

and all information provided on all BitChord associated websites and social media presences.

In case any of these uncertainties, risks or problems develop into actual events, the companies, the

business operations, the financial state of the companies, effect and results of BitChord operations and

material provided with BitChord and BitChord could be materially and adversely affected. In case of one of

these events you might lose part or all of the value of the acquired BitChord Tokens.

This white paper and its contained information shall not be considered legal, financial, business, tax or

investment advice concerning BitChord and its BitChord Tokens and its associates businesses and

operations. Please always advise your own tax advisor, your legal or any other professional advisor or your

local authorities when you plan to participate in BitChord and the BitChord Tokens. Please always be

aware that you might bear the financial risks of any participation in the BitChord / BitChord Crowdsale for

an indefinite period.

The whitepaper you are reading does not represent an offer document of any kind or prospectus and is

not intended to illustrate a solicitation for investment in securities or offer of securities in any jurisdiction.

Please Note: You are not eligible to buy BCD tokens if you are a citizen, or resident, or green card holder of

South Korea, the Republic of Singapore, Panama or of the People’s Republic of China.

The information provided in this whitepaper has not been approved or examined by any regulatory

authority of any kind. Please contact your local authorities, your lawyer or a professional advisor for

further information.

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Contents Legal disclaimer ............................................................................................................................................. 2

Background ................................................................................................................................................... 4

Who’s behind BitChord ................................................................................................................................. 4

What makes us different............................................................................................................................... 5

The Music Industry in a Nutshell .................................................................................................................. 6

A matter of survival ..................................................................................................................................... 13

What is BitChord ......................................................................................................................................... 15

How it works ............................................................................................................................................... 15

What are BitChord’s benefits ...................................................................................................................... 16

BitChord Crowdsale .................................................................................................................................... 16

Token Description ....................................................................................................................................... 17

Token Allocation ......................................................................................................................................... 17

Token Distribution Tiers .............................................................................................................................. 18

Bounty Program .......................................................................................................................................... 18

Use of Funds ................................................................................................................................................ 18

Project Economics ....................................................................................................................................... 19

Affiliate Program ......................................................................................................................................... 19

Roadmap ..................................................................................................................................................... 21

Team ........................................................................................................................................................... 21

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Blockchain is changing the landscape of the music sector. Guitar players, song writers, singers and musicians can now interact on a whole new level, but they’re still far from experiencing the full benefits of blockchain adoption. Yes, we are reaping the rewards of decentralization, but in the digital age musicians are struggling to make a living more than ever.

JamTrackCentral, Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music and other musical content platforms each take a cut of revenue before passing any remaining crumbs along to musicians. We leverage blockchain technology to change how guitar players interact with their user base. Our focus is on bridging the gap between content creation and distribution by introducing a No-Transaction-Fee (NTF) ecosystem that benefits both content creators and users.

BitChord is the answer to monetizing digital content in a fast, secure, fair and transparent way. We believe that blockchain and smart contract technology can create the direct channel and remove all intermediaries in both the distribution and payment processes.

With BitChord - getting paid for playing guitar becomes a reality. Through the use of our BitChord Token, we can minimize transaction processing time and transaction fees for each payment for the content you create, upload, host, share and view on the platform. The BitChord platform is developed to empower creators by making sure they receive 100% of their earnings as well as incentivize users to view and rate musicians by rewarding them with tokens. BitChord is connecting the guitar player to the audience and allowing them both to make money, all the while spreading knowledge of the blockchain to the mainstream.

Each core member of the BitChord team is personally vested in the success of this platform with years of experience in the fields of guitar playing, software engineering, finance and legal. Our vision is based on the foundation of developing a platform that brings true value to guitar players, and the desire to create a bridge between musical content creators and the digital asset ecosystem. While blockchain technology is undoubtedly going to change the way we do business across many industries, we believe that the music sector is far from exploring the full benefits of the blockchain space.

Our team is uniquely suited to create this bridge. Rather than starting from scratch, BitChord plans to build on the foundation of established music content platform models by seamlessly transferring them onto the blockchain to give guitar players greater control over their content, earnings and social interactions.

Who’s behind BitChord

Background

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We provide a way for users to experience music and the creative process by giving guitar players a platform that allows them to directly connect and engage with their fans. Giving back is something we strongly believe in, which is why we encourage and incentivize all users on our platform to rate the content guitar players upload as well as tip them with tokens for a job well done.

BitChord is Community.

We are a community of people coming together to play guitar and users looking for quality content, who believe there is a better way to experience music, share the unique relationship between artist and fan, and get rewarded for it.

BitChord is Freedom.

BitChord is Connection.

We connect guitar players and users in a way that reaches far beyond a simple download or sale. Through our marketplace, unique experiences and offerings come to life: from original video performances, guitar lessons and tutorials to backing tracks, tabs and sheet music guitar players want to sell directly to their fan base.

What makes us different

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The digital music revolution started with Napster – a pioneering P2P service, which set the road for new digital distribution giants such as Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music and others which have flourished using similar concepts. The rise of affordable recording hardware and software spawned countless garage and basement studios worldwide and gave creative outlet to hundreds of thousands of new independent musicians who could now record and sell their works at the click of a button. The Internet should have been a godsend to independent musicians and creators of replicable works right? There were two very logical reasons for that:

1. Independent creators traditionally faced difficulties with distribution and promotion, which in the past meant the need to deal with publishers (and all associated creative and financial trade-offs). The Internet enabled even the smallest business to reach a potentially global consumer base.

2. Creative works such as books, movies and music are pretty much the only products (others include software and news) that can be delivered on-line and as such seem custom-fitted to e-commerce.

The reality however turned out to be quite different. With very little money to be made, guitar players face the following problems in the digital age:

The expected quantity of sales (CDs, mp3 and content downloads etc.) turned out to be a lot less than projected. The rise of Napster taught people that you did not necessarily need to pay for the music content you wanted. This mindset spawned a host of sites with pirated content, torrent trackers and other peer-to-peer services where content was readily available at no cost to the user and at no financial benefit to the creator. Global Audience size. In the digital content age – the majority of those who otherwise would be “music fans” or “guitar fans” instead of shelling $100 to buy ten CDs or downloadable albums – often chose to buy a starter audio interface and become recording artists themselves. That’s the thing with being an independent artist – anyone can do it right? And while there is nothing wrong with that – the result is tons and tons of new music related digital content flooding the distribution channels. There is literally too much of it. Sites like CDBaby were releasing hundreds of titles every single day. Naturally, the goal of all these new artists was to sell their own content, not buy other people’s. But if everyone is selling who is buying? Content Quality Ratings. While in the good old days you could take a look at the Billboard 100 list to see who the best artists were and buy their works – how does one know which of the thousands upon thousands of independent artists are actually good today? It’s all relative, right? Wrong. The quality of music content just like the quality of an automobile can be objectively measured. But no one is doing it. Who is the content buyer to believe? The artist’s own website? The raving reviews on Amazon Music left by the artist’s friends and family members? The blazing press-releases and reviews on websites making a living off of taking any payment they can get for “promoting artists”?

The Music Industry in a Nutshell

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Channels and cost of distribution. The majority of critical issues facing the music industry today stem from a few sources, but distribution channels for original content remain a key problem. More importantly, a large portion of the creators’ earnings are being withheld by the platforms that host the content. Also there is limited artist visibility. The leading streaming music companies — YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud, Amazon Music, iTunes, and others — have been routinely accused of treating artists poorly through duplicitous contract structures and low payments. All of that has created a low-trust environment. Compounding the problem is the fact that streaming services like Spotify offer very little reliable guidance on their payout structures. They have even been accused of deliberately creating payout structures that are too complicated as well as over-stating their pay-per-stream payouts, based on discrepancies exposed by actual artists publishing their actual pay-per-stream payments. Independent and smaller content creators often complain that their rates are significantly lower than those endorsed by a major label, while their production quality may not necessarily significantly differ.

Meanwhile, YouTube, effectively the largest online platform for music distribution, remains notorious for low-paying, ad-based royalties with little signs of improvement. In fact, YouTube has fought aggressively to maintain its free tier, while shunning industry attempts to better control content and pay more to content owners. Here it’s worth mentioning the growing trend of de-monetizing videos if they have too few views, the channel doesn’t have enough subscribers or the content doesn’t meet YouTube’s increasingly confusing terms and conditions designed for a universal “host all” platform and not just music content.

Many guitar players feel that the priorities of streaming platforms skew towards extracting maximum value for themselves at the expense of content creators and artists. Not unexpectedly, those goals overlap with the interests of the major labels, which explains the massive percentage shares awarded to major labels by streaming services. Streaming is rapidly becoming the dominant form of music consumption, though it is now widely viewed as a cashless loss-leader for artists and songwriters. But what remains for guitar players whose content isn’t exactly what is considered ‘mainstream’ and needs consistent channels for promotion and engagement? And what options do guitar players – both experienced and up-and-coming – have for selling their original content directly to users without having to cut a huge chunk of their profits to hosting platforms from the likes of Bandcamp, Amazon Music, iTunes, JamTrackCentral and others, to streaming services: Spotify, Deezer, Apple's Beats Music, Rhapsody, YouTube and Tidal.

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Those and many other less significant factors contributed to the result of the endgame - those artists who had dreams of earning big by selling their music and content on the internet had to scale down their expectations to more realistic goals. How about earning a decent average wage? Turns out that’s not realistic either. How about earning minimum wage - that should be fairly easy, right? After all, it takes almost no skill to start flipping burgers at a major fast food company, while learning to play an instrument, learning at least some songwriting, composition, computer music recording and production – realistically, takes a minimum of a few years of hard work no different than obtaining a college degree. Unfortunately, statistics show that artists earning even minimum wage selling their music related content online is becoming the exception not the rule.

Guitar players currently lack a centralized hub online that is a default for music fans, thanks to the erosion of MySpace Music. Facebook was once viewed as a replacement for MySpace Music, but never materialized as such. What’s even worse, Facebook charges artists to reach their own fans, a move it defends as necessary given massive increases in Timeline posts that are overwhelming users. On top of this, Facebook is no longer the social media of choice for Millennials and the younger generation, which dramatically decreases the target audience of guitar players who are posting their content on it.

BandPage, a company that attempted to address this issue with a mass-site distribution platform, has been sold to YouTube. As guitar players are figuring out more constructive ways to earn money off of their content, many are still struggling to make a living wage, based on stats gleaned from leading digital distributors.In fact, former member of Cracker and current artist activist David Lowery feels that artists are worse off now than they were in the analogue era. Lower payments, less control, a shift in revenue towards tech companies, and less secure copyright protections to prove an artist’s case are all contributing factors.

Most guitar players are overwhelmed with tasks that go far beyond making music. That includes everything from Tweeting to fans, updating Facebook pages, managing metadata, uploading content, interpreting analytics, managing Kickstarter campaigns, figuring out online sales strategies all while working a 9-to-5 job to make ends meet. The average musician is underemployed. According to a musician survey conducted by the Future of Music Coalition (FMC), just 42 percent of musicians are working full-time in music. Musician salaries remain low.

Guitar players are increasingly playing free shows, in the hopes of getting paid work down the line. According to a recently released report from the UK-based Musicians’ Union, more than 60 percent of artists have played at least one free gig in the last year. Musicians remain resistant to growing revenues available from cover gigs, like weddings, bar mitzvahs, and parties (though this is starting to change with services like GigSalad).

But let’s look at some numbers: the Federal minimum wage rate in the U.S. is $7.25 per hour (Source: U.S. Department of Labor). We’ll assume a 40-hour working week and a four-week month for ease of calculation. The result will be somewhat lower than you’d expect for full time employment, but since we’re looking at minimum earning levels, this does not impact our calculations negatively.

Rolling it all together ($7.25×160), we get our benchmark minimum monthly earnings for one person: $1,160. Over twelve months, this gives as an annual income of $13,920, which is above the Federal

A matter of survival

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poverty line for a single person ($10,830 – source: U.S Department of Health and Human Services), but under it for two ($14,570 – source: ibid.). In other words: make sure your partner has a job.

Now that we have our benchmark minimum earnings level, we can check just how much we would have to sell of each of these products in order to earn these amounts. Note the additional assumptions that there is a single guitar player (a self-recording solo artist) and that their costs of recording the material are zero.

In the case of Amazon and iTunes single-track downloads, 1,813 units must be sold monthly; 21,750 units a year.

For CD Baby full album downloads (under the new commission rates), the numbers are: 155 units a month; 1,859 units a year

For eMusic single-track downloads, at the rates reported for Q3 2009: 3,392 downloads a month; 40,941 a year.

With Rhapsody streams, you’ll need 127,473 streams a month; 1,529,670 a year (yep, that’s over one-and-a-half million).

Finally, Last.fm rates mean you’ll need 7,733,333 plays monthly; 92,800,000 plays a year1

The business model of the popular guitar content online retailer JamTrack Central attempts to address some of these issues, even if purely for its own gain. JamTrack Central is cherry picking established top-tier guitar players who already have a massive following on YouTube. The now global framework of the “guitar battleground” effectively means one thing – every guitar player is in competition with every other guitar player in the world. One is no longer up against local players in their home town, even their home country. It’s gone international. And only the top cats get paid, never mind the hefty cut to the platform – the top tier players still earn. But that’s great, right? Having an opportunity to compete one-on-one with the greatest players from around the globe? Attempting to earn money in a global boxing ring without weight divisions? Not really. Even a seasoned guitar player attempting to compete in selling their content against guitar legends such as Guthrie Govan, Tom Quayle and Martin Miller will fare not much better than your local ma&pa store attempting to put Walmart out of business. And while those are some truly amazing guitar players – it’s a fact that come hell or high water – they will be making money with their craft. And rightly so. Now, what about the rest? Should only the top cab drivers in a city get paid? Should only the very best doctors earn a wage? How are aspiring and up-and-coming guitar players supposed to physically survive while pouring their time and energy into mastering their craft? By bussing tables? Driving for Uber? Working part time at Guitar Center? How is that working out for you? No new technology encapsulates the potential for positive change for this suffering music industry more than the Blockchain. With blockchain technology, pipe dreams like receiving payments for your original content in real-time, or simply ensuring that you will receive payment consistently through automated transactions, can become a reality.

1 The Paradise That Should Have Been (http://thecynicalmusician.com/2010/01/the-paradise-that-should-have-been/)

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BitChord is a global solution that simplifies music content distribution and puts power back in the hands of guitar players and their fans. The platform uses its own BitChord Tokens (BCD) as its primary currency, and both guitar players and users earn BitChord Tokens automatically as part of the platform’s buying/distribution process.

BitChord reduces costs and puts all revenue in the hands of guitar players for the original content they create, upload, host and sell in the BitChord’s Marketplace. At the same time, through automation and better data moderation and management, enabled by blockchain technology and machine learning, BitChord creates a database of high-quality content that users are interested in and will pay for.

By enabling direct artist-to-consumer engagement and commerce, BitChord not only eliminates intermediaries and makes the process of getting paid for playing guitar possible, but strengthens the traditional music industry by making it more efficient and transparent for guitar players as well.

Built on the Blockchain, BitChord gives guitar players complete control over their content and engagement with users. The zero-fee platform allows them to create, upload, host and sell original content, including video performances, video lessons, original tracks, tabs in electronic format such as GuitarPro files, backing tracks, full albums and keep all profits from their work. Each registered guitar player has his/her own profile page on the platform and space in the BitChord Marketplace, where he/she can sell their content.

At the same time, users who have purchased BitChord tokens can buy original content, rate the content they have purchased and/or viewed and tip their favourite guitar players. To incentivize users to contribute to the growth of the BitChord platform and its population with high-quality content, they will get rewarded with tokens for rating the content uploaded by guitar players. This rewards-based system will enhance fairness and transparency while ERC-20 token authentication for each transaction on the platform and location security check will eliminate information asymmetry and fraud.

Once a member of the platform, both guitar players and users will be able to transact directly and with zero fees. They will also actively contribute to the quality control of the content uploaded and shared on the BitChord platform and marketplace. This multi-dimensional ranking feature will drive the platform to become more social while preventing misuse, fraud and abusing the system.

The biggest incentive for the widespread adoption of the BitChord platform is the monetization of user activities that sees people get paid for rating the content they view and purchase as well as their contribution to its moderation, thus creating a database of high-quality guitar playing materials. Additional benefits from using the platform include target ads by partner music equipment retailers who will offer special discounts for BitChord registered users.

Guitar players, on the other hand, will have the opportunity for the first time ever, to receive all profits from the content they create, host, share and sell on a music distribution platform. They will be able to directly engage with their target audience and get rewarded in tokens for it. They will also be able to earn a 20% commission through our affiliate program for partner music equipment retailers on every referral sale made through their profile on BitChord.

What is BitChord

How it works

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BitChord Tokens will be the digital utilities that power and incentivize the BitChord ecosystem and platform.

The BitChord Token provides access to the platform. With BCD token transactions, we aim to offer a ZERO commission fee structure for all our target user groups.

For users For guitar players For music equipment

retailers

* Enjoy access to the best quality guitar playing materials from desktop or mobile devices * Free registration * Quality content from established and up-and-coming guitar players * Exclusive high quality content * Buy tokens * Earn tokens (rating content and referring friends) * Receive target advertisements and spend tokens on special offers from partner music equipment retailers * Instant payouts in BCD to your wallet

* Earn tokens for creating, uploading and hosting your original content * Rewards-based referral system * Get tipped in tokens from users who like your content * 20% commission on all sales from users referred to music equipment retailers’ sites from the ads on your profile * Preferential rates on music equipment from our retailer partners * Instant payouts in BCD to your wallet

* Increase organic reach to your target audience * Integrated native ads placement and local advertising * Lead-generation opportunities * Increased on-site spending from referred members * Consistent traffic from referrals

What are BitChord’s benefits

BitChord Crowdsale

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Token Name: BitChord Token

Ticker: BCD

Based on: Ethereum blockchain (ERC20 compatible)

Hard cap: 110 000 000 BCD

Available for sale: 67 100 000 BCD

Website: BitChord tokens will be sold exclusively via our website: https://www.bitchord.io

Accepted Currencies for Token Purchase: The crowdsale will accept Ethereum only.

Token Allocation

Token Description

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Crowdsale distribution times are based on the GMT 00:00 timezone. The minimum accepted contribution for participation in the Crowdsale is 0.1ETH. The Crowdsale will run for 90 days or until sold out.

All remaining BCD tokens, which are not distributed during the Crowdsale, will be distributed back into our reserve on the Crowdsale completion date. No more BCD tokens will be issued, created or minted other than distributed during this time.

Tokens will be listed on exchanges chosen by BitChord within 3 months after distribution.

BitChord’s Bounty Program is designed to reward supporters who help BitChord reach out to more people on the internet. The Program will run until the end of the main Crowdsale. 2% out of the total supply of 110 000 000 Million tokens are reserved for the Bounty Campaign.

The funds raised through the token sale will be used to accelerate the development and expansion of the BitChord platform, moving it to full production, integrating blockchain technology, establishing connections with partners for the affiliate program and growing our user base.

Early Presale April 11th, 2018 00:00 am April 30th, 2018 23:59 am

Token Price: $0.11 Available for Purchase: 3 100 000 BCD

Presale May 1st, 2018 00:00 am May 18th, 2018 23:59 am

Token Price: $0.16 Available for Purchase: 9 000 000 BCD

Public Sale May 19th, 2018 00:00 am August 27th, 2018 23:59 am

Token Price: $0.21 Available for Purchase: 55 000 000 BCD

Bounty Program

Use of Funds

Token Distribution Tiers

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BitChord is a community-driven music content platform, where content creation, upload, hosting and rating will be rewarded with tokens. It will also offer a unique opportunity for target advertising for music equipment retailers to drive traffic to and sales on their websites. Registration and use of the BitChord platform will remain free, although to participate – users will need to acquire tokens and spend them on content in the BitChord Marketplace or rate and review the content posted by guitar players on their profiles. All transactions and transfers of digital assets on the BitChord platform are zero fee.

As brands are looking for more ways to increase organic reach to their target audiences, they are discovering the benefits of using local advertising. New research shows that consumers are 68% more likely to share native ads than display ads and 53% more likely to absorb native ad messages.

The biggest challenge for companies is channelling the efficacy of local advertising. Digital still remains the most measurable and trackable form of mass media and with the right metrics and methodology, it can provide marketers with much more insights than other media. But due to the oversupply of ad inventory, unscrupulous tactics by publishers and marketers to force feed ads down users’ throats, and the lack of progress the industry has made to show effectiveness beyond sheer click thru rates, we are at a critical juncture where we need to change how we do business. The scale, efficiency and targetability of digital content sill makes it an incredibly powerful tool for online reatilers.

Music equipment retailers who wish to acquire access to a large number of target consumers registered on the BitChord Platform will be required to pay a small monthly subscription fee as well as a 20% commission to the guitar players whose profiles the referred sales have come from. Because all content

Affiliate Program

Project Economics

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on BitChord will be strictly regulated to ensure consistency and quality, music equipment retailers will receive the unique opportunity to target users whose uploads have been rejected due to: poor lighting, poor sound quality, inadequate video quality, inadequate overall production quality, etc., meaning they will receive that information automatically and be able to start displaying ads to users for the specific piece of equipment that will ensure his/her upload gets accepted by BitChord.

The advertising feature is fully customizable and e-wallet based where the advertiser can segment and target their campaigns and define custom PPL (pay per lead) or PPS (pay per sale) rates. Each time a user clicks on a published CPA Offer the related PPL or PPS rate is automatically deducted from the advertiser’s e-wallet balance and paid to the guitar player whose channel made the referral.

BitChord’s biggest source of projected profit will come from lead-generation opportunities presented to music equipment retailers.

Existing partnerships with companies in the sector will allow BitChord to position itself as a player on the market who ethically sources data from its users to dramatically increase the speed of lead response, contact and qualification rates. By increasing growth and social engagement through incentivizing users to use the BitChord platform, we can promote content dissemination, partnering with brands and influencers, and capturing audiences’ attention on a whole new level.

Use Case 1:

Guitar player A is using their laptop camera to record content. The video uploaded to BitChord gets rejected for poor video quality.

When Player A logs in to their BitChord profile, they see a notification that their content was rejected along with a specific reason why - low video resolution, poor lighting. In addition, the user sees ads in the sidebar that suggest video equipment that will produce the level of video quality required to have their content approved by BitChord.

Use Case 2:

User B is frequenting the channel of a favourite guitar player on the platform.

The user gets shown ads that recommend for purchase the same processor/guitar effects/presets as the guitar player they watch uses to achieve their sound.

Use Case 3:

Guitar player C records an original work or a cover and attempts to share it on the BitChord platform in order to monetize their performance.

Unfortunately, player C is still a beginner and their tone quality, sense of timing and overall guitar technique do not allow them to create content which will be of benefit to other users. Their content is rejected with specific reasons and the sidebar displays adds to video guitar lessons on the BitChord platform that may help improve their playing abilities.

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Roadmap

Team

Svilen Mikov – Content Advisor Svilen Mikov is a guitarist with 20 years of experience in live and studio performance, composer and RGT-certified music educator. He has taught and performed in the United States and the United Kingdom, and holds a diploma from the University of West London.

Flavia Messinese – Social Media Contributor Sicilian guitarist with a degree in Pop-Rock, and a jazz guitar student at the T. Schipa conservatory in Lecce. She has mastered modern guitar under the tuition of Maestro L. Galeano and has studied Armonia with Maestro P. Sorge.

Ignazio di Salvo – Content Advisor

Ignazio Di Salvo is an Italian guitar player, composer, and live performer. He's an Ibanez Guitars endorser and holds a Diploma from the Conservatory in Milan, and a Jazz Master Degree from the Italian Conservatory of Music "Vivaldi". A Guitar Idol 2011 finalist, he's experienced in Live/Studio session recordings, teaching Jazz Music, and doing Masterclasses and Clinics.

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James Sowers – Blockchain Advisor Former singer/songwriter, James is an experienced ICO and blockchain advisor. He has participated in over 40 initial coin offerings. He is also a contributor to well-known Blockchain publications and has been featured in multiple high-profile financial outlets.

Mykola Vdovychenko – Legal Consultant Mykola is a specialist in the field of IT, cyber and digital privacy. His interests include blockchain and smart contracts, and he has consulted multiple successful ICOs in the blockchain cryptocurrency sector.

Galina Mikova – Technical Writer Galina is a technical writer who’s worked with high-profile ICOs in the blockchain cryptocurrency field, resulting in over $10 million raised at the pre-ICO stage and awaiting close to $20 million in contributions, as well as music and entertainment site veterans. She has a solid background in FinTech and blockchain technology.