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> find a way to monetize it If only there were a smart way to build a cryptocoin without the environmental mess of miners, but where you earn coinage from seed

> find a way to monetize it If only there were a smart way to build a cryptocoin without the environmental mess of miners, but where you earn coinage from seeding videos. I feel like you'd want people to have a desktop client to let you seed in the background then award some sort of virtual currency that can be sold later. I hate to sound like a crypto-bro but I can't think of anything else more fitting for something already decentralized.

IncreasePosts 11mo ago
What value would this virtual currency have? Okay, someone seeded some videos and got a token - why should I go and pay them for that token?
- BigGreenJorts 11mo ago
  Maybe the tokens are how you access the content? Seed to get tokens, spend tokens to get new content. If you don't want to seed, you buy from users who did seed (or resellers).there are many token based comic apps, I wonder how feasible this would be on a small scale like that.
immibis 11mo ago
I seed videos to my other computer all day and I'm a trillionaire.
JimmyBuckets 11mo ago
Here are some attempts: LBRY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBRY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBRY BTT: https://www.kraken.com/learn/what-is-bittorrent-btt https://www.kraken.com/learn/what-is-bittorrent-btt
rapnie 11mo ago
GNU Taler [0] perhaps. They are funded by EU grants, and have a funding program [1] going to stimulate the ecosystem. > We are building an anonymous, taxable payment system using modern cryptography. Customers will use traditional money transfers to send money to a digital Exchange and in return receive (anonymized) digital cash. Customers can use this digital cash to anonymously pay Merchants. Merchants can redeem the digital cash for traditional money at the digital Exchange. As Merchants are not anonymous, they can be taxed, enabling income or sales taxes to be withheld by the state while providing anonymity for Customers. [0] https://docs.taler.net/ https://docs.taler.net/ [1] https://www.taler.net/en/ngi-taler.html https://www.taler.net/en/ngi-taler.html
RobotToaster 11mo ago
LBRY did that, the US government killed it.

IncreasePosts 11mo ago

What value would this virtual currency have? Okay, someone seeded some videos and got a token - why should I go and pay them for that token?

BigGreenJorts 11mo ago
Maybe the tokens are how you access the content? Seed to get tokens, spend tokens to get new content. If you don't want to seed, you buy from users who did seed (or resellers).there are many token based comic apps, I wonder how feasible this would be on a small scale like that.

immibis 11mo ago

I seed videos to my other computer all day and I'm a trillionaire.

JimmyBuckets 11mo ago

Here are some attempts: LBRY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBRY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBRY BTT: https://www.kraken.com/learn/what-is-bittorrent-btt https://www.kraken.com/learn/what-is-bittorrent-btt

rapnie 11mo ago

GNU Taler [0] perhaps. They are funded by EU grants, and have a funding program [1] going to stimulate the ecosystem. > We are building an anonymous, taxable payment system using modern cryptography. Customers will use traditional money transfers to send money to a digital Exchange and in return receive (anonymized) digital cash. Customers can use this digital cash to anonymously pay Merchants. Merchants can redeem the digital cash for traditional money at the digital Exchange. As Merchants are not anonymous, they can be taxed, enabling income or sales taxes to be withheld by the state while providing anonymity for Customers. [0] https://docs.taler.net/ https://docs.taler.net/ [1] https://www.taler.net/en/ngi-taler.html https://www.taler.net/en/ngi-taler.html

RobotToaster 11mo ago

LBRY did that, the US government killed it.