Celebrity Cyber Report – Terry Crews Has His Own Cryptocurrency

Published On April 7, 2021 | By Tom Huskerson | Celebrity Cyber News

Wait what? Yeah you read it right, former NFL gamer and now bare chested TV hunk Terry Crews is introducing his own cryptocurrency. You wanna tell him he can’t. Be my guest!

 Crews launched his own social currency via the startup Roll, a platform that allows so-called “creatives” to crypto-monetize themselves and their own content via what is essentially a decentralized blockchain-based crediting system. According to Roll the company says it sees this as a way for Crews and other celebrities to engage with their fans and audiences in an entirely new way.

Crews offers his own crypto-currency named  “$POWER.”  According TechCrunch so far it has been been dolled out to only about 100 people.  “If I give you $POWER, you own a piece of me,” Crews recently told the outlet. “There’s no other way to put it.” Crews says the ultimate goal of $POWER is to empower artists.

Before we close lets clear up the concept of social currency.  The idea is fairly new after all.  In Roll’s case, the company claims to give creatives the power to “own, control and monetize the value of their social interactions across all platforms.” Each creative using Roll is issued their own blockchain-based currency, which can then be customized for specific audiences and content. So it’s a little bit like a bizarro version of Patreon. A concept that allows people subscribe to artists they like and are awarded gifts for their contributions, except with specialized crypto rather than real money. Did you get all that?

 

 

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Tom Huskerson Bio Born in Richmond Virginia Tom Huskerson is a military veteran who settled in California after his discharge. Tom attended Santa Barbara City College where he began his writing career as a campus reporter. He worked as an intern news reporter for the Santa Barbara News-Press writing feature stories before moving on to San Francisco. At San Francisco State University Tom studied broadcast communications and began to focus on the Internet. He completed his graduate thesis on Internet advertising. Tom was the first student to ever focus on the Internet as a graduate student at San Francisco State University. After graduation he went to work for Zona Research in California’s Silicone Valley. As a research associate Tom supported senior analyst writing on the latest developments in the Internet industry. During the dot com boom Tom worked for several web businesses as a market researcher and analyst. As a writer and researcher Tom has authored various technical works including a training program for Charles Schwab security. Other projects included professional presentations on workplace violence and hiring security contractors. Tom has also written both fiction and non-fiction works and blogging for a travel website. He has published two books of short stories and completed two novels. Tom is the owner of Scribe of Life Literature and EbonyCandle.com. Tom is not the chief editor for the OnTechStreet. com. A news and information blog that focuses on tech news for African-Americans. The blog is the result of his desire to inform the African American community of the dangers and benefits of the cyber age. In his blog Tom reports on information security, new and analysis, scams and hoaxes, legal happenings and various topics that arise from the age of information. Tom believes that technology is a necessary tool for black people and they should know what is happening. Tom writes believing that techno speak is for the professional and that valuable information can be communicated using plain language. As a result he has embraced the motto, Less Tech, More Knowledge.

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