Transcript Ep. 347: RAC and David Greenstein on Why Music NFTs Are Better Than Spotify

Laura Shin: 

Hi all, a couple quick announcements. First, turn into Unchained podcast on YouTube at 11:30 a.m. Eastern time, today, for a livestream of the Chopping Block with early-stage crypto investors, Haseeb Qureshi, Tarun Chitra, Robert Leshner, and Tom Schmidt, as well as a featured guest, Andre Cronje. 

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Hi, everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no-hype resource for all things crypto. I’m your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto six years ago, and as the senior editor at Forbes, was the first mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full-time. This is the May 3, 2022 episode of Unchained. 

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Today’s topic is music NFTs. Here to discuss are Andre Allen Anjos, better knowns as the crypto-friendly artist RAC, and David Greenstein, co-founder of sound.xyz, a web3 music platform. Welcome David and Andre, I guess. 

Andre Allen Anjos:

Yeah, well, thanks for having me, I really appreciate it. 

David Greenstein:

And thank you, as well, I feel like this has been a long time in the coming from your initial email when we first connected. I give you a lot of credit for reaching out back in December.