With the ever-growing dependency on electronic payment systems (take two major credit card operators for example), it is increasingly difficult to generate income from content which is considered unwanted, erotic or is otherwise controversial. This forces many artists and content providers to use obscure payment systems, which can detract potential customers, often carry heavy margins and, more often than not, record or downright expose personal information of buyers and sellers.
Copyrighteon solves these issues and adds a few interesting innovations on top.

COMPARED TO BITCOIN

Unlike Bitcoin, which is not backed by gold or any real-world commodity (free market decides the value), ©EON is backed by copyright; intellectual property of art in its digital art gallery (CEAG). Yes, ©EON represents art, and each coin has a value of all of the art divided by the number of issued coins.
Bitcoin is decentralised, while ©EON is controlled by DesireHive, and later by the open community to ensure its future.
©EON is designed to be more stable than Bitcoin and has a built-in mechanism for small but constant value increases, backed by one of the most desired and timeless products since the Ice Age: art. ©EON may be rather pointless for speculation, but perfect for day-to-day use as a digital currency. Payment is immediate and there are enough coins in circulation requiring no mining or CO2.

SELL US YOUR ART

With ©EON we do not farm or mine new coins. One way to get ©EON is by trading art to the Copyrighteon Art Gallery (CEAG). The value of your art in ©EONs is decided by the DesireHive owners and later by auction in the open community.
Adding a new artwork to CEAG increases the number of available coins, while at the same time increases the value of the CEAG by having more content, which in itself combats inflation.

Selling your art is as easy as sending us preview over contact and ask for valuation. We accept high quality digital art (photography, drawings, video, animations,...).

BUY ©EON and NFT

You can buy ©EON for the actual price and sell any time with no delay with just 9% margin.
Before ICO there was 100,000 ©EON available to buy. The actual amount of coins is listed for registered users as well as amount of available coins.
©EONs can be easily converted to NFTs, the real ownership of single artworks in the gallery. 1 NFT is 11 ©EONs.

VALUE OF ©EON

Purchase price will be determined by the free market and is expected to constantly rise at a slow pace.
©EON is backed by thousands of valuable artworks and videos in the CEAG. This art was donated by DesireHive's owners and purchased with full copyright from artists around the world. DesireHive's share of the gallery has generated, on average roughly $3000 per month in 2021 raising most of the time steadily since. These numbers combined with its value as a currency are the deciding factor in determining the value of the ©EON as well as dividends.

SELL ©EON

You can trade ©EON with anyone in the world by sharing simple transaction ID.
To make the use as a currency even easier, we buy back every month many ©EON for 91% of actual value - giving you just a 9% or less third party margin on your digital sales (for comparison, most digital sale sites, like Patreon, OnlyFans, etc take 20-30% on top of the currency exchange PLUS processor fees). The longer you HODL, the less margin you pay. Plain and simple.

• Sell ©EON back to us

©EON AS A PAYMENT

©EON is designed to be used as a safe and stable cryptocurrency for art and digital content exchange. It can be purchased quickly with any available payment options, and can be sold immediately for 91% of its value with payout made via many available options. This way you can set up and pay for your membership or establish your content value in ©EON, instead of for example US Dollars, without worrying too much about the value dropping or raising too dramatically.

Remember that using ©EON as a payment does not give us copyright to your art, photos, videos or any other product it is used as a payment for. In fact, we do not even need to know what you use it for. The art in our gallery is used just to back the value (as gold used to back many major world currencies in the past), and for this purpose we purchase art with full copyright from artists our members like.

Send or Receive ©EON

Exchanging Copyrighteons is as simple as trading a gift-card with easy to use transaction code. Safe, anonymous and without any commission or fees. Send transfer code to your buyer or seller and that's it!

• Send or receive Copyrighteon here.

©EON AS AN INVESTMENT

While ©EON is not primarily intended to be used as an investment, its stability is perfect to protect yourself against inflation. The slow increase in value should however demotivate speculators and still retain value for its original purpose: a currency with which to trade art.
If last 15+ years we have been running the gallery and especially 2020 is any indicator, we expect the value to grow about 1% per year above inflation (~5% at this very moment). Free market will decide the number of available coins in the gallery so there will always be enough to be used for daily trading and at the same time value of it self will increase constantly.

DIVIDENDS

©EON is the first cryptocurrency which generates monthly dividends by itself, just from ownership of the coins. Dividends come from the income of the art gallery.
Dividends are gallery income from last month divided by available ©EONs. Plain and simple! Dividends simulate a nonprofit nature of the currency for any tax reasons as well - those who profit from using the currency in the business are motivated to keep enough for them self - system owned by those who use it...

SAFETY

©EON is a safe cryptocurrency, safer than most crypto-coins as it is backed by real-world value, not just by demand. The decentralised nature of Bitcoin might be seen as an advantage in security but this also makes it much more volatile.
©EON is bound to your DesireHive user ID, so selling and buying is free and simple and just as anonymous as an E-Mail address.
Trading in ©EON is however completely private as only transaction ID goes between buyer and seller.

©EON AND BLOCKCHAIN

As originally intended, in ©EON's case, blockchain is used to meta-stamp the art in its gallery. It means that attackers would have to request to download most of the art gallery, then download it (several terabytes), decrypt it and decode the proprietary data to discover who owns the particular coin. Availability of the archive itself is capped at around 2-4 days as it is stored encrypted on low availability cloud storage with few physical "write-only" backups. Even after all this effort, this would still only reveal who owns that particular coin, and would not change ownership or remove our copyright to the artwork itself.

Transactions themselves are completely private and not held in blockchain. Only the date of the transaction is stored, originating seller and buyer ID is discarded with the session.

FREE AND OPEN

Within a about a year we plan to release ©EON to the community of DesireHive users, making it even safer, more open and ensuring its future stays in the right hands forever.
Gallery incomes as well as all financial history is available for registered users already now.

INITIAL (PUBLIC) COIN OFFERING (ICO)

Starting from 27th September 2021, remaining coins were offered to the general public and marketed as any other cryptocurrency, just a few days before the controversial OnlyFans content ban was supposed to go into effect.
ICO price was $1 per coin and was expected to reach about $1.30 per coin within two years. Reality greatly exceeded our simulations and optimistic expectations!

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CEAG - THE GALLERY OF ART

The gallery can be accessed here (membership required).

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