Bruce Pon

fundamentally that's what we all humans have we have our intellectual property our ideas and if you could make a claim of attribution on it you can claim the copyright you can sell it on the bitcoin network as kind of a colored coin back in the day right you could sell it as i'm selling five copies of this podcast to some sponsor syndicating it and then you get money and royalties based on that yeah that was what we were building on top of bitcoin that's and that's what a scribe was

That's what Ascribe was.

We're like all behind Bitcoin.

We're also all behind like Ethereum.

But as we were developing the product, it was really hard to build because Bitcoin is fundamentally a cryptocurrency platform.

Ethereum is business logic.

What we needed was some way to capture metadata.

Metadata about the creative work, about the author, and about the licensing model and the royalty structure that they wanted to get.

And that's all metadata that won't fit on a Bitcoin.

You don't want it in Ethereum.

Why not?

Because Bitcoin only, it's like trying to use a Lamborghini to move your house.

It's not really built for that, right?

um you need something like a truck that can handle data not heavy data it's not like um it's like a half ton but it's not like a like this huge truck but it has to be fast enough nimble enough that you can get in get out of the city all this kind of stuff um we're not talking like an 18 wheeler so that's i mean pardon me for the the analogy but it's great no those are great

Yeah, BigchainDB is for data.

And, you know, after two years of building this product, it's actually a lot harder than what people think.

We have NASA scientists, PhDs in networking protocols, databases, and artificial intelligence on our team.

And a lot of people had been giving us flack in the community for saying, hey, you know, what you're doing is not that special.

And I can tell you that we have some, like, two-thirds of our team are PhDs.

What's your total team size?