Nice dude I've been to several shows at The Silent Barn, you are legendary! I used to live in Brooklyn before moving down here (rent is $300 per month for me here, soooo yea lol)

This specific idea of opening a steem-powered venue hasn't really panned out - but I'm already moving on to new stuff. Right now we're using a decentralized process to create the definitive "Musician's Guide for Steemit" to help other musicians join on here.

I feel like Steemit is a huge resource for the kind of thing that Silent Barn stands for - empowering DIY musicians regardless of personal identity, social status, etc. Any musician with a computer, regardless of their personal story or situation, can get on here and start earning money to improve their life (or fund music projects, etc)

I basically see Steem as a giant bucket of money that I'm trying to funnel into the DIY music scene as hard as I can haha

Please do be in touch when you're planning to come to Raleigh next, dude! I live right near downtown within striking distance of at least half a dozen great indie-minded venues. We should definitely grab coffee next time you come down here, it sounds like we have a lot in common.