Comment by giancarlostoro
17 hours ago
> 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.
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/
[1] https://www.taler.net/en/ngi-taler.html
Here are some attempts:
LBRY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBRY
BTT: https://www.kraken.com/learn/what-is-bittorrent-btt
LBRY did that, the US government killed it.
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?
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.
I seed videos to my other computer all day and I'm a trillionaire.