{"id":24334,"date":"2018-01-13T08:34:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T16:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=24334"},"modified":"2018-01-13T08:36:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T16:36:56","slug":"kodakcoin-lesson-resuscitating-dying-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/kodakcoin-lesson-resuscitating-dying-business\/","title":{"rendered":"KodakCoin: A Lesson in Resuscitating a Dying Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You would think that the \u2018Long Island Blockchain Corp\u2019 news that broke at the end of 2017 would have been a sobering moment. If I had to write a list titled <em>Signs We\u2019re In A Bubble<\/em>, \u201cwatching a company triple in value for adding a buzzword to its name\u201d would rank first (and second, and probably third) on that list. This isn't the first time it\u2019s happened, either. Only a month before, On-Line Plc, a British company, witnessed a <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/blockchain-companies-see-stock-prices-surge\/\">growth of almost 400%<\/a> by renaming itself to &#8220;On-Line Blockchain Plc&#8221;. And until the fad loses momentum, it won\u2019t be the last.<\/p>\n<p>You may remember Kodak for refusing to adopt the digital camera, and paying dearly for its mistake. Since bankruptcy, the company has shifted its focus, catering to niche markets in film and printing, as well as mining the wealth of patents accumulated through its lifetime. From titan of industry to sharing its factory with a <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/watch-how-kodak-survives-now-that-film-is-dead-1692629681\">salsa<\/a> distributor, it looks like the glory days of Kodak are truly over.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24503\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24503\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kodakcoin-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"KodakCOin\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kodakcoin-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kodakcoin.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kodak promises that the KodakCoin will help photographers protect their creative endeavors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Or it did, until the magic of blockchain mania resurrected the brand. A few days ago, the company announced its plan to launch its own cryptocurrency for photographers, the KodakCoin. The token, according to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kodak.com\/us\/en\/kodakone\/default.htm\">website<\/a>, would power the KodakOne platform, designed to protect the intellectual property of photos it stores. Of course, this announcement resulted in the value of Kodak shares <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/business\/news\/kodakcoin-kodak-shares-bitcoin-latest-cryptocurrency-launch-rochester-new-york-a8151116.html\">doubling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As opportunistic as the change in strategy may seem, using a digital ledger to ensure proof of ownership is, on the surface, one of the more sensible uses of blockchain technology. It\u2019s long been posited that such an application could sidestep the need for a centralised custodian, allowing creators to demonstrate that content is their own. This can be as simple as embedding a hash of a file into a blockchain (think https:\/\/poex.io\/) or even allow independent musicians to earn <a href=\"https:\/\/singulardtv.com\/\">revenue<\/a> for their songs as they\u2019re listened to\/used.<\/p>\n<p>The question that looms, however, is one most people ask when they hear of a new venture in cryptocurrency: does the project need a blockchain? The answer, in this case, is probably not. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CryptoCurrency\/comments\/7pkptx\/kodakcoin_from_a_photographers_perspective\/\">This<\/a> photographer on Reddit points to the current state of licensing photos, making reference to stock photography sites (the likes of Shutterstock, iStock, Getty Images, etc.) and the federal law that enshrines copyright.<\/p>\n<p>They go on to highlight that one of the services that the platform endeavours to provide, web crawling, already exists in the form of <a href=\"https:\/\/reverse.photos\/\">Reverse Google Image Search<\/a>. You\u2019d forgive someone for thinking that Kodak have really just Frankensteined already existing ideas together and added a token to raise funds without having to dole out equity.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, the website announces that its ICO at the end of January will be SEC compliant. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2018-01-12\/giants-still-walk-the-earth-at-banks\">This<\/a> excellent article by Matt Levine on <em>Bloomberg<\/em> clarifies what this means: the SEC have been wrestling with the status of tokens for some time now, and have settled on the conclusion that, in most cases, they amount to securities (and thus must be registered with the SEC).<\/p>\n<h2>Accredited Investors Only<\/h2>\n<p>Kodak went the route of limiting their sales to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/files\/ib_accreditedinvestors.pdf\">accredited investors<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecfr.gov\/cgi-bin\/text-idx?SID=0a94ea1a8a9ecce212ec25025efed3af&node=17:3.0.1.1.12.0.46.181&rgn=div8\">exemption<\/a>, which, while excluding the need for registration, means that the tokens can only be sold to persons having earned over $200,000 in each of the past two years, or having a net worth of at least $1,000,000.<\/p>\n<p>Safe to say, your average Instagram photographer won\u2019t be buying into the ICO. In theory, accredited investors can trade their KodakCoin with photographers for their work, but the latter will not easily be permitted to sell these for cash. Until the process of token-to-fiat is streamlined, the platform may have a hard time attracting users.<\/p>\n<h2>The Kodak KashMiner<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24495\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24495 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kodak-kash-miner-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"Kodak KashMiner\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kodak-kash-miner-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kodak-kash-miner.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Kodak KashMiner is a Bitcoin miner that you rent for $3,400 and split the profits with Kodak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The KodakCoin wasn't the only brilliant blockchain innovation to come out of the company. Enter the <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.businessinsider.com\/kashminer-kodak-bitcoin-mining-2018-1?r=US&IR=T\">Kodak KashMiner\u00a0<\/a>(yep, that\u2019s the official name). Unveiled at CES 2018, this is Kodak\u2019s attempt at cashing in on Bitcoin mining. For all intents and purposes, what they're offering is a cloud mining subscription.<\/p>\n<p>These are controversial in the Bitcoin community, at best being touted as a waste of money, and at worst being derided as Ponzi schemes.<\/p>\n<p>For $3400, the company allow a customer to \u2018rent\u2019 mining hardware on a two-year contract, and estimate returns of roughly $9000 \u2013 oh, and the company take half of the Bitcoin collected. Couple that with the increasing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anythingcrypto.com\/guides\/bitcoin-difficulty-2018\">difficulty<\/a> of mining, and you\u2019ll probably <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2018\/01\/10\/kodak-pt-2-photographers-cant-sell-kodakcoin-and-the-kodak-kashminer-is-a-bitcoin-mining-scam\/\">realise<\/a> you\u2019re better off buying Bitcoin upfront.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a believer in blockchain technology. I think it does what it does well \u2013 decentralising a network and incentivising users to maintain its integrity. It has use cases, but I have my doubts that this is one such scenario. I wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoinsider.21mil.com\/kin-pioneering-social-media-cryptocurrency\/\">article<\/a> on Kik\u2019s Kin token awhile ago, and draw a similar conclusion here \u2013 companies appear to be jumping on the ICO bandwagon with no real need to, beyond attempting to drum up interest.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it looks like Kodak\u2019s realised what the market wants to hear. Whether their initiatives pan out remains to be seen. Perhaps the company will rise from the ashes to reclaim its throne. Personally, though? I think the Kodak moment has passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You would think that the \u2018Long Island Blockchain Corp\u2019 news that broke at the end of 2017 would have been a sobering moment. If I had to write a list titled Signs We\u2019re In A Bubble, \u201cwatching a company triple in value for adding a buzzword to its name\u201d would rank first (and second, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":24500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"prediction_market_topic":[],"post_folder":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.9 (Yoast SEO v21.9.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>KodakCoin: A Lesson in Resuscitating a Dying Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/kodakcoin-lesson-resuscitating-dying-business\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KodakCoin: A Lesson in Resucitating a Dying Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You would think that the \u2018Long Island Blockchain Corp\u2019 news that broke at the end of 2017 would have been a sobering moment. 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