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Rewarding Builders

If we're going to change the way music is streamed, discovered, and paid for, we're going to need a lot more ideas being tested out in the wild. To encourage this, we want to evenly share rewards with the builders of these ideas In the last

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Oh, What A Night

We had such a fantastic evening at The Vinyl Lounge in Nashville. So many great performers and friends from all over the world. Thanks to the more than 500 people who attended the event and an extra special thanks to all the artists who put on an amazing show: The

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Introducing... Ticketbot

A new way to buy and sell tickets across the web using open standards and internet identities As you may have heard, Wavlake is throwing its first concert in Nashville in July. We thought this would be a good opportunity to build and test out a new kind of ticketing

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A Special Evening at The Vinyl Lounge

We're really excited to announce our first concert event happening in Nashville on Thursday, July 25th at The Vinyl Lounge! This coincides with the Bitcoin 2024 conference and is brought to you in collaboration with Tunestr, who will be live streaming the event. Think of it as a

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Bring Your Own Lightning Address

Starting today, Wavlake artists will be able to use their own Lightning Address to receive earnings from fans. By logging into Studio and setting this preference, artists can now automatically receive earnings to any personal Lightning account that uses a Lightning Address for receiving payments. For anyone who is not

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Frictionless Zaps

With Nostr Wallet Connect, users can seamlessly link their Wavlake wallet to any NWC app or the Wavlake mobile app to any NWC wallet. Traditionally, making payments over Lightning has consisted of multiple steps you may be familiar with: fetching your phone, opening your lightning wallet, scanning a QR code

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How To Discover Music on Wavlake

So you found Wavlake. Welcome! You’ve arrived at a great time, as we’ve just launched our long-awaited Playlists feature on our mobile app. This will make new music discovery even better. You’re a fan with great taste, so how do you find your next fix of great

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Build your own Wavlake chart

We're excited to announce the release today of custom, embeddable Wavlake charts. This new extension of our portable player allows anyone to slice and dice Wavlake stats to create unique views into our music library. Below is an example we built using this tool – the top 10 Hip-Hop/

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Tracks on Wax

Calling all artists, submit your original song for a chance to be on The Bitcoin Record.

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Piracy is making a comeback

There was a brief period of time, mainly during the hangover stage of rampant file sharing via indie FTP sites, Napster, and torrents, that many of us realized that freely downloading the creative works of others at no expense to ourselves might be unfair. There were some logical arguments against

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The Musical Odyssey of Longy

"Wavlake has taught me to give what is easily accessible to me and if I can help just one person on the planet, then it was worth the pain I had to go through" -Longy

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Wavlake Guest Playlist: Car González

I KEEP COMING back to this vibrant universe of Wavlake, drawn partly by genuine interest and largely by the allure of its innovative Value for Value (V4V) model. With each new song I discover, I'm not seeking mere reflections of what I might find on Tidal or Spotify.

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We Are Not Bandcamp for Bitcoin

One of the biggest challenges in the first year of Wavlake has been describing to people what the heck Wavlake is. It's a music streaming site. It's a way for artists to distribute digital music. It's a way for artists to earn bitcoin for

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2023: The Year in Review

It's been an incredible year for us here at Wavlake and we wanted to take a moment to look back and see how far we've come since launch. We also wanted to send a special thanks to all the great artists and fans who have been

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The New, Weekly Top 40

The Wavlake Top 40 was always intended to be just one, introductory way to recommend new music to people. It seemed logical — just count how many sats each track earned within a certain period of time and show the results. When we first launched, this seemed like a good enough

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Music Shows

With the ever-growing popularity of music podcasts such as Boostagram Ball, Phantom Power Music Hour, and The Sidestream Music Podcast, it comes as no surprise that one of our biggest requests has been to add support for music podcasts. Today, we're excited to announce the beta version of

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Kavinya

Kavinya’s vocal stylings are deeply rooted in soul and gospel. She has dedicated her life to pursuing her passion for music, participating in various projects, working as a session artist, and captivating audiences with her live performances.

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Bitcoin Is The New Rock & Roll

“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” -Victor Hugo Early 1950’s America. Harry S. Truman is in office. The economy is booming and the middle class are comfortable. Shiny new television sets invite the first scenes of Hollywood into people’s homes. The Weavers,

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Ainsley Costello

In a world of viral internet stars, emerging artist Ainsley Costello aims to leave a lasting impact. With a powerful voice like Haley Williams or Pink, Ainsley's heartfelt lyrics offer a heartwarming listening experience.

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Wavlake Artist Splits

We are thrilled to announce the introduction of an exciting new feature in the latest update of Studio, called Artist Splits. This highly anticipated feature empowers artists by giving them the ability to include up to 4 Wavlake users in the payment split for their tracks.

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Reverse Broadcasting

How open protocols will flip the way we count ears and eyeballs Taylor Swift's "Cruel Summer" has been on heavy rotation this summer on my local pop radio station. I really don't mind hearing it every hour – it's a great song. It

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Open Music is Bringing a New Sound to Podcasts

Music has been missing on podcasts for a long time. Sure, it's common to hear a few seconds' worth at a time. But never entire songs. The reason for this boils down to the way rights to most recorded music are constructed today: that is, a podcaster

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Value for Value Music with Lightning: What a concept!

The concept of Value for Value music streaming using the Lightning Network represents a new kind of marketplace for digital music. This model allows for greater artist control and decentralization because the music isn't just published on a single, central platform, but can be distributed across the internet

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Joe Martin

Joe Martin is a singer-songwriter from Lancashire, England. He discovered country music as a child and has since been inspired by artists like James Taylor and Paul Simon. Joe's live performances receive high praise from his audience, who often comment that his songs sound beyond his years. His

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How we built Wavman

We think Nostr presents a great opportunity to build a new way to interact with music on the internet, which is why we decided to build Wavman. Wavman is a proof-of-concept/prototype that serves two main purposes. First, to explore the potential for interactive media on Nostr. Second, to help