Auteur: joseph grima Date: À: System undo crew Sujet: Re: [unSYSTEM]
introducing a new Distributed App: ΛLΞXΛNDRIΛ
Sounds interesting - glad to help if I can!
> On 10 Mar 2015, at 00:03, Christian Wong <herrschakal@???> wrote:
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> This sounds fantastic!
> Count me in!
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> On Mar 8, 2015 10:25 PM, "Devon Read" <devon@??? <mailto:devon@blocktech.com>> wrote:
> undo crew,
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> I wanted to let you all know that Blocktech is about to start the private beta for a cryptocurrency 2.0 app, Alexandria - a distributed library for sharing and preserving art, history and culture. You can think of it as essentially youtube or soundcloud, but by making use of various P2P networking technologies, the platform relies on no servers. Users can self-publish anything they'd like (videos, songs, books, 3d printables, recipes, etc) and they (and only they) have complete control of how their works are published. By integrating bittorrent technology, certain media types can be streamed in HD right in the browser, and because the service has no server or bandwidth overhead, we don't need to make users watch ads. And with a blockchain at its heart, a cryptocurrency payments layer is built right in. So content creators will be able to monetize their work in a variety of ways - from free access with optional tipping, to microsubscription streaming to pay-per-play. Initially only tipping will be available, but we are working with partners in the industry, including Rivetz Technology, to start implementing optional purchase-to-download mechanisms for our publishers.
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> For our blockchain, we're currently using a 1 year old fork of Litecoin called Florincoin. The reason we chose it is because it is designed to store information in addition to transaction records. Each transaction can store 528bytes of extra data, which we've made use of as our permanent and unalterable publishing database. It also has a 40 second target block time, which makes our front end much more responsive in discovering new media submissions. We are designing the platform to be as blockchain agnostic as possible, so if sidechains turns out to be a good, workable idea, we can make use of them, but for now Flo is serving our needs best.
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> We have a private beta list going, which we're going to start seeding to shortly - in perhaps a week or so, after we finish integrating a few more components into the client app. At the moment, users can run the app to browse the library and stream content in-app. When we release the beta, we'll have the wallet and torrent client fully integrated to make the submission process simpler, but at the moment, doing so requires running some terminal apps. If any of you would be interested in checking this out before the beta starts, please let me know. Also, we have a Slack chat going for some of our early users, so if anyone would be interested in joining it to chat directly with the developers, just drop me a line.
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> Thanks so much,
> Devon
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