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William Shatner’s Crypto Startup Helps You Digitize Precious Items
By CCN Markets: William Shatner has been dealing in virtual currency since 1966 when he began starring as Captain Kirk on Star Trek. Now he’s heading his own start-up, Third Millenia, which will help people use the Mattereum protocol.
Mattereum is a blockchain solution for authenticity and legal ownership bolstered by the blockchain. Using microchips and Ethereum, users can not only validate, for example, a signed photograph, but they can also find out a lot more backstory about the item in question. Shatner had previously partnered with the company. In the following Tweet, Shatner demonstrates how Mattereum works with an action figure.
Cryptonians! My friends @VitalikButerin & @ElonMusk were trying to decide what to build on @Ethereum. I’ve been waiting & waiting 🙄 I finally decided to do something myself. Join me! 😘 Bill 👉🏻https://t.co/S8A6lAjapU #MCC2019 #blockchainweeknyc #atomicswapnyc @mattereum pic.twitter.com/NEd8MSVwHC
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) May 10, 2019
Adding Backstory to Rare Items
Third Millenia’s goal is to make Mattereum asset transfers easy for Shatner’s senior citizen peers and non-technical people.
Shatner wrote a Star Trek spin-off series called Tek Wars, which was adapted for television in the early 1990s. In the opening episode of the show (below), the digital currency of the Star Trek universe plays a prominent role.
