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🎯 Episode Thesis (Part II)

Hollywood isn’t just consolidating. It’s entering a phase of systemic decay.

In Part II of our 100th episode, we go beyond the Netflix–Warner deal and examine the deeper structural consequences: how monopolized distribution reshapes storytelling, how financial engineering replaces creative risk, and why studios are trapped inside their own incentive models.

In this episode of BitCorner Podcast, Zack Mahoney (IndieHub) breaks down what happens after consolidation becomes the norm: shrinking opportunity for filmmakers, algorithm-driven greenlights, theaters losing leverage, and audiences being fed optimized content instead of cultural moments.

This is a conversation about second-order effects: what monopoly does to art, to creators, and to culture itself.

And more importantly, what emerges in response.

We explore how parallel creative infrastructures are forming: where funding, distribution, and sovereignty no longer depend on gatekeepers.

Part II isn’t about diagnosing the bleed. It’s about what replaces a collapsing system.

2:12 - IndieHub: A solution using Bitcoin 3:41 - Why Bitcoin? Permissionless transactions 10:32 - The IndieHub vision: Connecting audience and filmmaker 11:06 - Streaming money like data: Per-second payments 20:11 - Netflix: Giving away your baby 21:39 - Art versus propaganda 26:38 - How IndieHub and Bitcoin reshape storytelling 33:45 - Decentralized creative economy benefits 35:56 - How to measure success: Iterating faster 39:14 - Never, never, never quit

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