• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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    10 months ago

    That really doesn’t explain how it works. So… the host mines crypto as well as sending you videos? What is the economy supposed to work like? What does the blockchain actually achieve here? Why do people host in that case? Where do they explain this?

    Anyway, I’m still not interested in crypto anything. The moment I saw it was blockchain based I noped out pretty fast. I’m guessing a lot of people do and that’s part of why it’s such a reactionary cesspit.

    Like we don’t need blockchain for this; regular federation already works.

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        10 months ago

        Peertube is also p2p, so the videos can be hosted apart from the host instance, and there’s nothing stopping peertube instances from maintaining a distributed ledger of references to videos without the blockchain.

        Everything you say blockchain does can be achieved via distributed plaintext ledgers. It is solving a problem that doesn’t exist.

        As for the earning money part, eventually you do have to connect your personal details in order to transfer crypto to a usable currency, so that problem isn’t really solved either.