Blockchain as Immortality

I don't like Damien Hess as a person. I'm pretty sure the feeling is mutual. But, as an artist, MC Frontalot is often intelligent and entertaining. Lately, I've been thinking about his encryption song "Secrets From The Future". It's about how, in the distant future, encryption will be like a child's bike lock. Trivial to defeat. But, we'll all probably be dead by then anyway. So there's that.

But, on the other hand, the blockchain raises the interesting possibility that our work might live on for generations. Even if the data currently being encoded into blockchain format lives on as quaint content akin to silent movies, or 8-bit abandonware, there's a pretty good chance it will live on, for hundreds of years or more. Erm, if we don't blow up the planet or something. And by then, I guess blockchain satellites will be the norm.

Some forward-thinking people are making this possible, starting now. Steemit for writers, LBRY for audio and video, and Spee.ch for photographs. And that's just the start.

If you're a huge egoist like I am, and let's face it, if you're an artist, you are, then you're going to want to vainly store all of your works in blockchain format so your great grandchildren might have a chance to view your brilliance.

There's also a lot of benefits to being early adopters, of course. When I first started promoting my metal band Gortician online in 1995 or so, the Internet was small. Consequently, our influence was all out of proportion with life in general. We out-charted Cannibal Corpse and Six Feet Under on MP3.com. With boombox recordings of practices. And the influence we had persists to this day, some fifteen years later. If you can't be first, be great.

So, get your media on the blockchain. Nurture it. Create a passive revenue stream. But most of all, preserve your work for all time, or at least the conceivable future.

Blockchain Image Storage
https://spee.ch/@Nerdcore

Blockchain for Writers
https://steemit.com/@jason-christie

Blockchain Multimedia
https://open.lbry.io/@Nerdcore#1299d83de3401e3046542c14b74f7d836c0e91e2/ces