Winning a Technical Emmy with Leo Matchett

The DIVI Crypto Podcast

Today we’re talking with the co-founder and CEO of Decentralized Pictures, Leo Matchett. Leo was all set to go into investment banking when a friend of his needed help with his thesis film for film school. Leo says it was such a rewarding experience that he changed plans and went to film school. He moved to LA in 2005 and in 2008 when the iPhone launched he got into mobile app development. He would win a technical Emmy for the app a few years later. While working at a studio in Burbank, they had free space that they were coming up with ideas on how to use. Film studios had great power grids, and Leo suggested buying chips from China and mining bitcoin. Leo says this was the entrance to their film and crypto mesh. By 2018 the coins they had mined were very valuable, and they started theorizing how they could use that to make the film industry more efficient. A main goal was to help the independent film industry and thus, Decentralized Pictures was born. As a 501c3 charitable nonprofit, they aim to support the arts. They plan to do so through a blockchain called TalentChain. They want it to be decentralized in nature and are currently building a virtual studio. People will be able to submit ideas into the application, and people from the rest of the world can vote on ideas that are most deserving of money from the fund. Beyond funding for the winner, they try to help runners-up to get their foot in the door somewhere. Leo says they’re mostly about talent discovery and launching careers. All major agencies and most production companies have agreed to look at the talent that comes through our site. They’re currently doing a beta test which should be completed soon. Leo says they’re doing everything they can to get their first app out the door. For TalentChain they’re getting ready to allow people to get in and start running nodes and start mining on it. Leo says they’re only selling a specific amount of film credits and that everyone that wants to participate will start with the same amount of stake. To learn more, go to www.dencentralized.pictures or tlnt.net. -- Divi is creating the world's first closed-loop, vertically-integrated cryptocurrency ecosystem. Much like Apple's ecosystem is anchored by iCloud, the Divi Project blockchain serves as the core of the Divi network of technologies. Thanks to a keen understanding of the divide that separates the mainstream from the crypto world, the Divi team is able to create solutions to the industry's biggest problem: adoption by non-technical users. Divi's user-friendly, one-click solutions aim to bring blockchain-based payments into modernity with great UX. In this podcast, we will cover all aspects of cryptocurrency, hot topics, and technology as worldwide adoption grows.