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Hey HN, I'm Denis, one of the creators of Mediachain. Happy to answer any questions! This Co.Design article does a great job of explaining how Mediachain helps

Hey HN, I'm Denis, one of the creators of Mediachain. Happy to answer any questions! This Co.Design article does a great job of explaining how Mediachain helps creators: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3060426/could-blockchains-solve-the-webs-image-attribution-problem http://www.fastcodesign.com/3060426/could-blockchains-solve-... Here is our official fundraising announcement with more details: https://blog.mediachain.io/mediachain-labs-funded-by-union-square-ventures-andreessen-horowitz-to-build-a-universal-open-337ee690f61b https://blog.mediachain.io/mediachain-labs-funded-by-union-s...

paavokoya 10y ago
Hey Denis, What differentiates your company from the hundreds of other "blockchain-based" identity companies that do almost the same thing? I've seen a lot of companies throwing around these exact buzzwords and fancy landing pages for 5 years now and most just seem to be raking in VC funding while fading into obscurity a year later. There's a list if you scroll down on this link: http://www.blockchaintechnologies.com/blockchain-companies http://www.blockchaintechnologies.com/blockchain-companies
- denisnazarov 10y ago
  We're creating a completely open, decentralized media library and our goal is to help creators reach their audience directly through their content. We believe that value should follow the content, instead of flowing from a platform. Today, Mediachain helps preserve attribution for creative works wherever they go, so you can know the creator of that anonymous viral image you see in your feed. In the future the same infrastructure will enable financial exchange directly between a creator and their audience through their works. We've written some more about the implications of Mediachain here: https://blog.mediachain.io/the-gif-that-fell-to-earth-eae706c72f1f https://blog.mediachain.io/the-gif-that-fell-to-earth-eae706... https://blog.mediachain.io/what-a-blockchain-for-music-really-means-e2f8dc66d57d#.y4xge49cc https://blog.mediachain.io/what-a-blockchain-for-music-reall...
  - paavokoya 10y ago
    So it's on "IPFS" so I'd need to buy into the "filecoin" scam which is going on? Why not just use bitcoin?
    - tveita 10y ago
      The IPFS protocol thankfully works independently of any *coin. It's not clear to me that Filecoin is any more or less of a scam than Bitcoin, nor that involving "blockchains" adds any value at all in this case.
    - kefka 10y ago
      Right now, filecoin is only a whitepaper. There's no implementation yet. Possibly never. Now, Filecoin seems to, from the whitepaper, gotten it right. We all know of the tragedy of the commons. Their solution was an elegant way around that, by granting filecoin to whom share their bandwidth and local storage. And then, others will take your coin for duplicating files you want copied. But right now, it doesnt exist. And IPFS still works flawlessly.
      - paavokoya 10y ago
        > by granting filecoin to whom share their bandwidth and local storage This is what every blockchain does.. (lottery mining) >But right now, it doesnt exist. And IPFS still works flawlessly Reading the IPFS website, I was under the impression IPFS nodes were utilizing filecoin. My bad.
        parkan 10y ago
        Filecoin is one of several proposed approaches for encouraging seeding ("pinning") in the IPFS network. In our network (Mediachain), we will probably start out by using tit-for-tat pinning between peers for this purpose.
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denisnazarov 10y ago
Also, Mediachain Labs is hiring distributed systems engineers! http://www.mediachainlabs.com/jobs/ http://www.mediachainlabs.com/jobs/

paavokoya 10y ago

Hey Denis, What differentiates your company from the hundreds of other "blockchain-based" identity companies that do almost the same thing? I've seen a lot of companies throwing around these exact buzzwords and fancy landing pages for 5 years now and most just seem to be raking in VC funding while fading into obscurity a year later. There's a list if you scroll down on this link: http://www.blockchaintechnologies.com/blockchain-companies http://www.blockchaintechnologies.com/blockchain-companies

denisnazarov 10y ago
We're creating a completely open, decentralized media library and our goal is to help creators reach their audience directly through their content. We believe that value should follow the content, instead of flowing from a platform. Today, Mediachain helps preserve attribution for creative works wherever they go, so you can know the creator of that anonymous viral image you see in your feed. In the future the same infrastructure will enable financial exchange directly between a creator and their audience through their works. We've written some more about the implications of Mediachain here: https://blog.mediachain.io/the-gif-that-fell-to-earth-eae706c72f1f https://blog.mediachain.io/the-gif-that-fell-to-earth-eae706... https://blog.mediachain.io/what-a-blockchain-for-music-really-means-e2f8dc66d57d#.y4xge49cc https://blog.mediachain.io/what-a-blockchain-for-music-reall...
- paavokoya 10y ago
  So it's on "IPFS" so I'd need to buy into the "filecoin" scam which is going on? Why not just use bitcoin?
  - tveita 10y ago
    The IPFS protocol thankfully works independently of any *coin. It's not clear to me that Filecoin is any more or less of a scam than Bitcoin, nor that involving "blockchains" adds any value at all in this case.
  - kefka 10y ago
    Right now, filecoin is only a whitepaper. There's no implementation yet. Possibly never. Now, Filecoin seems to, from the whitepaper, gotten it right. We all know of the tragedy of the commons. Their solution was an elegant way around that, by granting filecoin to whom share their bandwidth and local storage. And then, others will take your coin for duplicating files you want copied. But right now, it doesnt exist. And IPFS still works flawlessly.
    - paavokoya 10y ago
      > by granting filecoin to whom share their bandwidth and local storage This is what every blockchain does.. (lottery mining) >But right now, it doesnt exist. And IPFS still works flawlessly Reading the IPFS website, I was under the impression IPFS nodes were utilizing filecoin. My bad.
      - parkan 10y ago
        Filecoin is one of several proposed approaches for encouraging seeding ("pinning") in the IPFS network. In our network (Mediachain), we will probably start out by using tit-for-tat pinning between peers for this purpose.
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denisnazarov 10y ago

Also, Mediachain Labs is hiring distributed systems engineers! http://www.mediachainlabs.com/jobs/ http://www.mediachainlabs.com/jobs/