Thibault Verbiest on Cryptobooks.club and crypto literature

0:00I'm Ashlyn Addison from a vincentio for investmentpitch media and FinTech news network and today on blockchain interviews we have tebow ver beast the lawyer and novelist of multiple books welcome to the show Tebow it's a pleasure to have you today hi and thanks for the right pronunciation of my name I appreciate it you're very welcome it was a pleasure meeting you in Vietnam

0:23where we spoke on the stage at the blockchain conference you told me a little bit of both the books that you've been writing and that you're an international lawyer could you give us a little bit of background on how you got into law and writing and into the cryptocurrency industry yes sure I started lowering about 25 years ago and I immediately started focusing on the interactions

0:48between load and technologies and then back in time it was the beginning the very beginning of the internet age you know with the first rise of e-commerce websites a tripod around 1998 or 97 maybe and so it was a very beginning and I was so excited you know about being one of the first lawyers trying to understand how we can combine

1:16peer-to-peer technologies like internet and regulations you know because it was a real shift of paradigm for everyone with acquitting for oils right no it started its how I started so I found it my interest firm in 2000 which was you know the only or the first firm entirely difficult to internet regulations in Brussels Paris tel-aviv

1:45after and you know and after some years I started you know because I was protecting myself always into the future you know I because I have a lot of imagination to I had some ideas about Sciences science fiction stories you know and somehow always in relation with what I'm doing as

2:14somehow you know and because both both are feeding each other you know my screwing riding and or writing and because I also sometimes write screenplays and my job is a lawyer both interact with each other and it was the same for blockchain basically you know and when I discovered blockchain

2:42but maybe six years ago I took it as a possible subject for a novel because this is this is just fascinating you have some something like there with the blockchain which is like a collective consciousness you know it's like a collective consciousness you know we are all intertwined interconnected as nodes in a very equal equal way you know in and we are all part of that huge

3:13consciousness you know it's a very beautiful image of the evolution of our society actually blockchain that's amazing yeah I completely agree with you and now is this part of the thesis of your novels or as this is the inspiration and you know what were the ideas and how you came up with these yeah my first novel was written now six years ago if I'm not mistaken

3:42and it started 10 years ago it had nothing to do directly with the blockchain the second one is more connected to the blockchain but the first one I'm awake which is available in English it has been translated into English and Amalek is about the story you know the pitch is 9:00 Israeli soldiers who are teleported like in a Star Trek movie you know be me give me

4:10up Scotty you know that I reported accidentally in Auschwitz in 1943 so back in time and it's it's it's it's action it's also spiritual and because my soldiers they will be infiltrated into the oceans camp and many things will happen to them but also at the spiritual level a spiritual level

4:39it's it's not just about action so it's a meaningful story for me what's going on there and we're going to discuss it after but a Maliki's is will be one of the first two novels probably in the world I would say that you will be able to by using crypto currencies so I'm saying it now because just because I'm Alec is in English at first its

5:05first it's a fascinating novel and I urge you to read and for the crypto sphere you can use your you cryptocurrencies and buy it that's great that's awesome so and I heard that you guys are having a launch party for your second book as well where you will be accepting crypto currency for the books can you tell us a little bit about the launch party when is it and what your

5:34what are you expecting to get out of that yes the launch the launch event will take place in Paris on the 8th of November at my office we have a big office in Paris where we can welcome many people and it will be a double event I would say first it will be a signing session of my southern novel leave this is the French name as I told

6:05you before starting an interview I have not elected and the English title yet because the translation of Lima into English sounds not very good free you know doesn't sound good in English so I have I have to find another title into it in English but whatever and so it will be the signing session of my second novel today only in French SUNY's is going to be available in English it's a

6:34matter of maximum two months is being translated now and it will be also the official launch of crypto books Club and crypto books Club is a smart basically smart contract you know it's a smart contract and where that will accept ethers and the major ERC 20 tokens not all of them but major

7:08ones meaning that we were gonna take the 20 20 firs of major PRC 20 tokens in terms of liquidity right and so if you have tokens from some of the big ideas of the last month and you want to use them to buy ebooks you can do it no we're gonna start with just a few books and starting

7:37with my own novels I'm also part of the founders of crypto books Club and we will and we're gonna upgrade very soon because we are now entering into partnerships with a number of publishers ebook publishers yeah and we're gonna be able to offer you know a very large catalogue of e-books before

8:06the end of this year and so eventually we'll end up being like a crypto Amazon that's awesome so are you guys looking for more people as publishers to join the club as well as readers yes exactly and actually we're gonna address both the self-publishing area and the publishing industry so if you are no

8:34other and you and you want to self publish now you go to Amazon most people go to Amazon right this one I did for my second novel my first novel was published by a prestigious official well-known publisher in Europe but for my second novel I decided to self-publish and so I went to Amazon that's what most if not all others you know in the dynamics do they go to Amazon because

9:04Amazon no you can you can offer ebooks as a self-published author but also paperback books and so it's if you have the energy and the envy and the you know and the conviction to promote your own books that's that's what most authors do today Amazon is a good solution and it's it requires a lot of energy from the authors but even if

9:33you are published by a big a big publisher unless you are very one on author is the same you need to invest to get committed to the promotion of you book the same way I would say right definitely and so Amazon is the solution for most and furbishing authors and now we are adding we adding crypto booster club as an add-on for self publishing authors and they would address the crypto

10:01community as well you know of course we are it's a bad you know we are making that assumption that the crypto community will be excited to use their tokens to buy something you know as I would say not trivial but you know what I mean you know daily life stuff you know and as books right and we'll see how the reaction of the crypto committee

10:30will be but anyway we are not we are not we are not doing it for money we are not doing an IC o—- it's not it's not a question of making money here it's a question that we are all when I say all is the team dedicated to crypto bookstore Club to the web design the development of the small contract we are doing a great job here and you will look mid of November the website will be

10:57available the reason will be great you know will be great we won't be ashamed even compared to Amazon in term of the feature the you can feel everything will great it's gonna be a great portal for buying books and but we are doing it because because we are committed to that new era that is announced by blockchain you know it's what I what we said in the

11:27beginning of that great interview and let's provide some sense and meaningfulness to what we are doing here you know we are not here to raise easy funds you know we are here because we believe that blockchain is a profound game-changer in everyone's life even if I'm sure that in five years many people will be using bludgeon even without knowing it's the same way that you don't

11:54understand what the internet protocols are and why you are using Internet 50 hundred times a day you know you don't understand that the Internet protocols which are behind that right now say probably same with blockchain blockchain is a new infrastructure that will make this world society more horizontal that vertical and that's also

12:24that is all science and I'm glad that you guys are starting this Club growing the community so what is in the next six months for you is it do the crypto you know do the crypto Club go out and promote your book are you writing another novel you know what's coming up for you in the next six months altogether of course we're gonna promote crypto books Club because what we are looking

12:52for is more authors and more publishers because we are accepting already we have already a partnering publisher playing with us and we and we are willing to accept also publishers because publishers are facing also problems today and they are being you know now somehow attacked by you know

13:22platforms like Amazon the bookshops they are in poor shape it's it's it's it's a moribund it's a Marie but industry publishing right and so we are offering a new way for publishers to address a new market and directly directly that this is the advantage of blockchain and with full transparency for everyone and so publishers are more than welcome

13:52more than welcome and also we and we are going to reinvent the publish the publishing chain blockchain is providing transparency but we can also revenge some some dynamics that are failing today like international translation of books it's very very difficult to get translated you need to be to get published first then you publisher needs

14:21to convince another publisher of the target country to translate the book and it's very costly etc here we are offering the possibility to be translated using a community of translators being played in tokens that's kind of with peers validating the translation quality being paid also in tokens so we are using what the crypto community can bring best to

14:50our society right and so yes we gonna we're gonna promote crypto bookstore Club and I'm gonna promote my books by the same token and in my view now both are connected definitely so if people are looking to reach out to you to get involved with the project what's the best way to get a hold of you either through my website Kiba verbascum and there is a contact

15:19form you if you write me I will respond and oh you can also go through crypto crypto books club contact and saying we gonna respond wonderful well thank you so much Tebow for being a part of this interview I really appreciate you taking the time out of your busy day and I'm looking forward to hearing how your launch party went and seeing the success of your further

15:46novels in our next interview so thank you so much thank you a nice day thank you bye