Jeremy is the creator of TopScore (usetopscore.com), LBRY (lbry.io), and that joke where the first two items in your list are serious while the third one is a run-on sentence.
'; + case 'mike': + case 'jimmy': + return '' . $this->getAuthorName() . ' is one of the founding members of LBRY.
'; + case 'jack': + return 'Jack was one of the first people to discover LBRY and took to it so fast he may understand more about it than anyone. He has Asperger\'s Syndrome and is actively involved in the autism community.
'; + case 'lbry': + default: + return 'Much of our writing is a collaboration between LBRY team members, so we use SamueL BRYan to share credit. Sam has become a friend... an imaginary friend... even though we\'re adults...
'; + } + } +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/view/37-art.md b/view/37-art.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fbf8b099 --- /dev/null +++ b/view/37-art.md @@ -0,0 +1,236 @@ +--- +author: jeremy, zargham, jack +title: Art in the Internet Age +date: '2016-03-21 20:06:18' +cover: /img/altamira-bison.jpg +--- + +## Introduction + +In 34,000 B.C., there were cave paintings. And that’s it. When you came home from a sweltering August day of foraging along the Vézère river, the only form of non-live art or entertainment available was something like the above buffalo. + +Today, we live in a world of near infinite choices. This is true not just for art but for all kinds of things (like potato chips). Since the era of cave art, humanity has incessantly and progressively trended towards interconnected, more efficient, and increasingly transparent markets. This undercurrent of connectedness and openness has affected everything human beings produce. + +Nerds like us like to speculate about the end-game of this trend with others on the internet. What will society be like when we have a "Star Trek"-like capacity to instantly and freely replicate anything that exists? The term for this society is _post-scarcity_[1](#note-post-scarcity). + +Generally, post-scarcity is regarded as fantastical; something that will never happen in our lifetimes. Except for one area: digital goods. + +Art in the internet age is infinitely reproducible and easily shared. This is a sea change from any prior time in history. Previously, vinyl records captured audio in physical grooves; tapes captured data on magnetic strips; compact disks held digital files read by lasers — in each of these cases physical, medium-specific hardware is required to both produce and recover the bits of data that made up the digital content. + +Today art is just data, a string of 1s and 0s, a _number_, and we no longer need any specialized hardware to decode and enjoy digital content. We use the same technological methods to access a personal photograph a single time as we do to watch a blockbuster on Netflix. + +This is a big step forward from the past. As production costs fall to zero, choices go up. Digital distributors provide virtually every song, film, photo or book for purchase and download to any internet enabled device. Technology has also decreased the cost of production — it has never been easier for aspirant artists to achieve a following through self-publishing. + +The digitization of art has added a lot of value to both content creators and consumers, reducing costs and increasing choice. This transition is still in its infancy. With LBRY, we’re going to make it a little more mature. + + + +## A People’s Marketplace + +LBRY is the first digital marketplace to be controlled by the market’s participants rather than a corporation or other 3rd-party. It is the most open, fair, and efficient marketplace for digital goods ever created, with an incentive design encouraging it to become the most complete. + +At the highest level, LBRY does something extraordinarily simple. LBRY creates an association between a unique name and a piece of digital content, such as a movie, book, or game. This is similar to the domain name system that you are most likely using to access this very post. + + + +However, LBRY does this not through a proprietary service or network, but as a _protocol_, or a method of doing things, much like HTTP, DNS and other specifications that make up the internet itself. Just as many different domains owned by many different companies all speak a shared language, so too can any person or company speak LBRY. No special access or permission is needed. + +LBRY differs from the status quo in three big ways: + +1. **Coupled payment and access**. If desired, the person who publishes to [lbry://wonderfullife](lbry://wonderfullife) can charge a fee to users that view the content. +2. **Decentralized and distributed**. Content published to LBRY is not specific to one computer or network. No one party, including us, can unilaterally remove or block content on the LBRY network. (If it worries you that LBRY could facilitate unsavory content, this is discussed in its own section.) +3. **Domain names are controlled via ongoing auction**. This facilitates names being controlled by the publishers that value them most. These transactions take place via an electronic currency called LBRY credits, or _LBC_. This is covered in more detail, below. + +While creating a protocol that we ourselves cannot control sounds chaotic, it is actually about establishing trust. Every other publishing system requires trusting an intermediary that can unilaterally change the rules on you. What happens when you build your business on YouTube or Amazon and they change fees? Or Apple drops your content because the Premier of China thought your comedy went to far? + +Only LBRY consists of a known, promised set of rules that no one can unilaterally change. LBRY provides this by doing something unique: leaving the _users_ in control rather than demanding that control for itself. + +## A Sample Use + +Let’s look at a sample use of LBRY, Ernest releasing a film on LBRY that is later purchased and viewed by Hilary. + +1. Ernest wants to release his comedy-horror film, _Ernie Goes To Guantanamo Bay_. +2. The content is encrypted and sliced into many pieces. These pieces are stored by hosts. +3. Ernest reserves [lbry://erniebythebay](lbry://erniebythebay), a name pointing to his content. +4. When Ernest reserves the location, he also submits metadata, such as a description and thumbnail. +5. Hillary, a user, browses the LBRY network and decides she wants to watch the film. +6. Hillary issues a payment to Ernest for the decryption key, allowing her to watch the film. +7. Hillary’s LBRY client collects the pieces from the hosts and reassembles them, using the key to decrypt the pieces (if necessary). This is transparent to Hillary, the film streams within a few seconds after purchase. + +This is a lot like an interaction that can happen on many different sites on the web, except that this one happens via a network that is completely decentralized. The data and technology that makes the entire interaction possible is not reliant on nor controlled by any single entity (as it would be via YouTube, Amazon, etc.). + +## The LBRY Network + +To understand precisely what LBRY is and why it matters, one must understand both LBRY as a protocol and the services the protocol enables. HTTP is the protocol that makes web browsing possible, but it would be of little interest without the service of a web browser! + +To understand LBRY, think of LBRY in terms of two layers: _protocol_ and _service._ The protocol provides a fundamental, underlying technological capability. The service layer utilizes the protocol to do something that a human being would actually find useful. + +For a user using LBRY at the service level, the magic of what the LBRY protocol does will be largely transparent, much as a typical internet user sees nothing of how HTTP works. Via a LBRY application, a user will be able to open a familiar interface to quickly and easily discover and purchase a piece of digital content published by anyone in the world. + +However, such an application would not be possible without the LBRY the underlying layer, the LBRY protocol. + +### Layer 1: Protocol + +While the protocol is one comprehensive set of rules, it is easier to understand as two parts. + +#### Part A: The LBRY Blockchain + +A _blockchain_, or _distributed ledger_ is the key innovation behind the Bitcoin network. Blockchains solved the very complicated technological problem of having a bunch of distributed, disparate entities all agree on a rivalrous state of affairs (like how much money they owe each other). + +Like Bitcoin, the LBRY blockchain maintain balances -- in this case, balances of _LBC_, LBRY’s unit of credit. More importantly, the LBRY blockchain also provides a decentralized lookup and metadata storage system. The LBRY blockchain supports a specific set of commands that allows anyone to bid (in LBC) to control a LBRY _name_, which is a lot like a domain name. Whoever controls a name gets to describe what it contains, what it costs to access, who to pay, and where to find it. These names are sold in a continuous running auction. We will talk more about this system a little later on. + +If you’re a programmer, you might recognize the LBRY blockchain as a _key-value store_. Each key, or name, corresponds to a value, or a metadata entry. Whichever party or parties bid the most LBC gets to control the metadata returned by a key lookup. + +Here is a sample key-value entry in the LBRY blockchain. Here, wonderfullife is the key, and the rest of the description is the value. + +wonderfullife : { + title: "It’s a Wonderful Life", + description: "An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.", + thumbnail: "http://i.imgur.com/MW45x88.jpg", + license: "public domain", + price: 0, //free! + publisher: "A Fan Of George Bailey", //simplification + sources: { //extensible, variable list + lbry_hash :+ +`, + url : + } + }
News and musings from the LBRY team.
-- Regardless of whether you got LBRY to run or not, your feedback is immensely valuable. - Everyone who made any effort to install and complete the survey below will receive *. -
- - diff --git a/view/get/getSharedApp.php b/view/get/getSharedApp.php deleted file mode 100644 index 1d93b323..00000000 --- a/view/get/getSharedApp.php +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ - - false]) ?> - -wonderfullife- In addition to , your feedback will be personally read by the developers and help signal - interest in LBRY to investors. -
- Provide Your Feedback -LBRY is coming out on your favorite platform soon. Join our list to know when.
- 'Go', - 'returnUrl' => '/get', - 'listId' => Mailchimp::LIST_GENERAL_ID, - 'mergeFields' => ['CLI' => 'No'], - ]) ?> -- Download .deb -
-
+
A recent New York Times [op-ed](http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/an-experimental-autism-treatment-cost-me-my-marriage/) by John Elder Robison tells the story of his life before and after taking part in a groundbreaking experiment into using an innovative electromagnetic therapy to perhaps remediate a core disability of autism. Robison, who is on the autism spectrum had a successful career and family life, but nevertheless faced personal challenges and decided to try TMS, or transcranial magnetic stimulation, to gain greater insight into the emotional cues and nonverbal communications of other people. Researchers hoped to gain better insight into how TMS might help address these challenges. Robison hopes these insights will one day form the basis of therapies, and he himself experienced great rewards - even from this early stage experiment. The treatment granted him the ability to better read and feel emotions, but it was quite a ride. His marriage fell apart, and many of his personal relationships became strained for years. Conversely, with new eyes, he formed many new relationships, he re-married, and many others relationships grew stronger.
diff --git a/view/analytics/track.php b/view/template/analytics/track.php
similarity index 100%
rename from view/analytics/track.php
rename to view/template/analytics/track.php
diff --git a/view/template/blog/_author.php b/view/template/blog/_author.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e041b977
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+++ b/view/template/blog/_author.php
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+![<?php echo __('Photo of %name%', ['%name%' => $authorName]) ?>](/img/<?php echo $photoImgSrc ?>)
+ + Earn * for completing the survey below after install. +
+ + diff --git a/view/template/download/_linux.php b/view/template/download/_linux.php new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5ac26155 --- /dev/null +++ b/view/template/download/_linux.php @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ + ++ Download .deb +
+ +wonderfullife. Continue to play as you desire.+ In addition to , your feedback will be personally read by the developers and help signal + interest in LBRY to investors. +
+ +wonderfullife+ In addition to , your feedback will be personally read by the developers and help signal + interest in LBRY to investors. +
+ Provide Your Feedback +Let's create a freer, more creative world.
+ +Make with us. All LBRY code is open source.
+ +LBRY is coming out on your favorite platform soon. Join our list to know when.
+Can't wait? View the source and compile instructions on + GitHub. +
diff --git a/view/template/download/_videoIntro.php b/view/template/download/_videoIntro.php new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9c0e5ce1 --- /dev/null +++ b/view/template/download/_videoIntro.php @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Join our mailing list for updates about LBRY.
- -While the protocol is one comprehensive set of rules, it is easier to understand as two parts.
+A blockchain, or distributed ledger is the key innovation behind the Bitcoin network. Blockchains solved the very complicated technological problem of having a bunch of distributed, disparate entities all agree on a rivalrous state of affairs (like how much money they owe each other).
+ +Like Bitcoin, the LBRY blockchain maintain balances -- in this case, balances of LBC, LBRY’s unit of credit. More importantly, the LBRY blockchain also provides a decentralized lookup and metadata storage system. The LBRY blockchain supports a specific set of commands that allows anyone to bid (in LBC) to control a LBRY name, which is a lot like a domain name. Whoever controls a name gets to describe what it contains, what it costs to access, who to pay, and where to find it. These names are sold in a continuous running auction. We will talk more about this system a little later on.
+ +If you’re a programmer, you might recognize the LBRY blockchain as a key-value store. Each key, or name, corresponds to a value, or a metadata entry. Whichever party or parties bid the most LBC gets to control the metadata returned by a key lookup.
+ +Here is a sample key-value entry in the LBRY blockchain. Here, wonderfullife is the key, and the rest of the description is the value.
+ : View::imagePath('header-logo-dark2.png') ?>){kind=logo}
@@ -19,9 +20,9 @@
+ wonderfullife : {
+ title: "It’s a Wonderful Life",
+ description: "An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.",
+ thumbnail: "http://i.imgur.com/MW45x88.jpg",
+ license: "public domain",
+ price: 0, //free!
+ publisher: "A Fan Of George Bailey", //simplification
+ sources: { //extensible, variable list
+ lbry_hash : <unique id>,
+ url : <url>
+ }
+ }
Other than the usage of the LBRY blockchain to store names and metadata, there are only minor differences between the blockchains of LBRY and Bitcoin, and the changes are generally consensus improvements. We’ve buffed the hashing algorithm, smoothed the block reward function, increased the block size, increased the total number of credits, and prepared for offchain settlement.
+ +The LBRY blockchain simply maintains LBC balances and a content namespace/catalogue. The next part, LBRYnet, specifies what to do with this data. To compare to the existing web, the blockchain is like the domain system (it maintains a listing of what is available), while the next piece makes it possible to actually fetch and pay for content.
+ + +LBRYNet is the layer that makes the LBRY blockchain useful beyond a simple payment system. It says what to do with the information available in the LBRY blockchain, how to issue payments, how to look up a content identifier, and so on.
+ +To use the LBRY network, a user’s computer needs the capacity to speak LBRY. That layer is LBRYNet. Just as your computer has a library that enables it to understand HTTP, DNS, and other languages and protocols, LBRYNet is the piece of software that allows your computer to understand how to interact with the LBRY network.
+ +To understand what role LBRYNet plays, let’s drill a little more into a sample user interaction. Once a user has affirmed access and purchase, such as in step 5 of our Sample Use above, the following happens:
+ +Puts on jargon hat.
diff --git a/view/template/page/learn.php b/view/template/page/learn.php new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c9b867e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/view/template/page/learn.php @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ + + + false]) ?> + +LBRY is a completely open source protocol that provides a decentralized digital marketplace.
+ +
+
+ Puts on jargon hat.
++ LBRY is a decentralized, censorship-resistant, open-source, peer-to-peer information marketplace and discovery protocol. +
+Removes jargon hat.
++ LBRY is a new way for people to publish and share content with each other. +
++ Our goal is to provide a single box that allows anyone anywhere to find and purchase digital content from anyone else. +
+
+ Oops. You caught us. We haven't automated Slack invites yet. Please email Josh.
+He answers email approximately as fast as a robot.
+-- Mike Vine Technology Evangelist -LBRY is so simple your Grandma can use it. I’m ready to see blockchain technology become useful for regular people.
-
LBRY is made possible by more people than we could ever list here. The founding team is listed below.
- Jeremy knows how to build and scale a startup starting from day one. He knows how to deliver usable products and get those products in front of the right people. -
-- Jeremy is responsible for the packing, presentation, and strategy of LBRY, as well as some design aspects. He is a longtime BitTorrent community enthusiast. -
-- Jeremy founded TopScore, a startup that - processes millions of dollars monthly in event and activity registrations. - He also attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he received degrees in physics and computer science. -
++ Jeremy knows how to build and scale a startup starting from day one. He knows how to deliver usable products and get those products in front of the right people. +
++ Jeremy is responsible for the packing, presentation, and strategy of LBRY, as well as some design aspects. He is a longtime BitTorrent community enthusiast. +
++ Jeremy founded TopScore, a startup that + processes millions of dollars monthly in event and activity registrations. + He also attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he received degrees in physics and computer science. +
+
- Michael has spent years managing, designing, and overseeing a data science team and framework used to make multi-million dollar - purchasing decisions for a large media company. He brings knowledge of the media distribution business, software development - expertise, business development experience, technical skill and a network of corporate contacts. -
-- Michael’s ability to rapidly adapt new skill sets makes him a technical and business pocketknife of our startup team. He has a - PhD in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, with a focus on distributed systems. -
++ Michael has spent years managing, designing, and overseeing a data science team and framework used to make multi-million dollar + purchasing decisions for a large media company. He brings knowledge of the media distribution business, software development + expertise, business development experience, technical skill and a network of corporate contacts. +
++ Michael’s ability to rapidly adapt new skill sets makes him a technical and business pocketknife of our startup team. He has a + PhD in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, with a focus on distributed systems. +
+
Josh's combination of an MBA, strong analytical skills, programming skills, advertising expertise, and a perceptive insight to @@ -68,36 +61,39 @@ Josh has founded innovative financial companies (later acquired), run millions of dollars in Adwords campaigns, and been an early actor in other crypto projects. Josh's contributions to LBRY will be as diverse as his background.
+
- Jimmy is the second member of team LBRY to graduate from Rensselaer with degrees in computer science and physics. - After, he found himself mired in government bureaucracy, spending too much time to get too little done. -
-- Ready to work on a project he believed in, Jimmy left a national security programming job to start LBRY. - Jimmy created the LBRY protocol and the first LBRY application. -
-- Jimmy is a Bitcoin fanatic and has been since its early days. He has long been interested in the benefits of decentralization. -
++ Jimmy is the second member of team LBRY to graduate from Rensselaer with degrees in computer science and physics. + After, he found himself mired in government bureaucracy, spending too much time to get too little done. +
++ Ready to work on a project he believed in, Jimmy left a national security programming job to start LBRY. + Jimmy created the LBRY protocol and the first LBRY application. +
++ Jimmy is a Bitcoin fanatic and has been since its early days. He has long been interested in the benefits of decentralization. +
+
With a humble BA in Philosophy from Tulane University, Mike has @@ -113,12 +109,14 @@ Now, he's ready to change the world by harnessing blockchain technology. Mike heads up LBRY’s marketing efforts and serves as an ambassador for our platform to media, investors, and the public.
+
Do you think opening up information would facilitate human flourishing? Do you want to join a bright core of people with an obsession for upending broken systems? Say hello.
+
Alex Tabarrok is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center + and a professor of economics at George Mason University. He specializes in intellectual property reform, the effectiveness of markets, and the justice system. +
+Tabarrok is the coauthor, with Mercatus colleague Tyler Cowen, of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution + and cofounder of the online educational platform Marginal Revolution University. + He is the coauthor of + Modern Principles of Economics, + and author of the recent book + Launching the Innovation Renaissance. + His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and many + other prestigious publications. +
+Tabarrok received his PhD in economics from + George Mason University. +
+Alex Tabarrok is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center @@ -193,11 +217,36 @@
Tabarrok received his PhD in economics from George Mason University.
+>>>>>>> origin/master:view/page/team.php
+ Stephan Kinsella is a registered patent attorney and has over twenty years’ experience in patent, intellectual property, + and general commercial and corporate law. He is the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom. + Kinsella has published numerous articles and books on intellectual property law and legal topics including + + International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide + + and + + Against Intellectual Property + . +
++ He received an LL.M. in international business law from King’s College London, a JD from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at + Lousiana State University, + as well as BSEE and MSEE degrees. His websites are stephankinsella.com + and kinsellalaw.com +
+@@ -218,6 +267,7 @@ as well as BSEE and MSEE degrees. His websites are stephankinsella.com and kinsellalaw.com
+>>>>>>> origin/master:view/page/team.php
Michael Huemer is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Colorado, where he has taught since 1998. He has published three single-author scholarly books (including Ethical Intuitionism), one edited anthology, and more than fifty academic articles in epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and metaphysics. -
+Huemer's articles have appeared in such journals as the Philosophical Review, Mind, the Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, and others. His materials are used as readings in classrooms nationwide. He received a B.A. from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University.
+
LBRY is seeking an extremely experienced technical advisor or an advisor with a strong background in the publishing and media space. If you're that person or have a suggestion, let us know. -
+LBRY allows anyone to publish content to a location like this:
lbry://wonderfullife
Others can access this resource, either for free or for credits. Let's look at an example:
diff --git a/view/page/art.php b/view/template/page/what.php similarity index 69% rename from view/page/art.php rename to view/template/page/what.php index 27ab1745..6aec3e25 100644 --- a/view/page/art.php +++ b/view/template/page/what.php @@ -1,18 +1,21 @@ + + + true, 'isAbsolute' => true]) ?>In 34,000 B.C., there were cave paintings. And that’s it. When you came home from a sweltering August day of foraging along the Vézère river, the only form of non-live art or entertainment available was something like the above buffalo.
Today, we live in a world of near infinite choices. This is true not just for art but for all kinds of things (like potato chips). Since the era of cave art, humanity has incessantly and progressively trended towards interconnected, more efficient, and increasingly transparent markets. This undercurrent of connectedness and openness has affected everything human beings produce.
-Nerds like us like to speculate about the end-game of this trend with others on the internet. What will society be like when we have a "Star Trek"-like capacity to instantly and freely replicate anything that exists? The term for this society is post-scarcity1.
+Nerds like us like to speculate about the end-game of this trend with others on the internet. What will society be like when we have a "Star Trek"-like capacity to instantly and freely replicate anything that exists? The term for this society is post-scarcity1.
Generally, post-scarcity is regarded as fantastical; something that will never happen in our lifetimes. Except for one area: digital goods.
@@ -26,12 +29,12 @@LBRY is the first digital marketplace to be controlled by the market’s participants rather than a corporation or other 3rd-party. It is the most open, fair, and efficient marketplace for digital goods ever created, with an incentive design encouraging it to become the most complete.
At the highest level, LBRY does something extraordinarily simple. LBRY creates an association between a unique name and a piece of digital content, such as a movie, book, or game. This is similar to the domain name system that you are most likely using to access this very post.
+
While creating a protocol that we ourselves cannot control sounds chaotic, it is actually about establishing trust. Every other publishing system requires trusting an intermediary that can unilaterally change the rules on you. What happens when you build your business on YouTube or Amazon and they change fees? Or Apple drops your content because the Premier of China thought your comedy went to far?
Only LBRY consists of a known, promised set of rules that no one can unilaterally change. LBRY provides this by doing something unique: leaving the users in control rather than demanding that control for itself.
+Let’s look at a sample use of LBRY, Ernest releasing a film on LBRY that is later purchased and viewed by Hilary.
+Let’s look at a sample use of LBRY, Ernest releasing a film on LBRY that is later purchased and viewed by Hillary.
This is a lot like an interaction that can happen on many different sites on the web, except that this one happens via a network that is completely decentralized. The data and technology that makes the entire interaction possible is not reliant on nor controlled by any single entity (as it would be via YouTube, Amazon, etc.).
+From a user's perspective, interaction is extremely similar to those that happen on hundreds of different sites, similar to YouTube, Amazon and Netflix. + The key different is that this one happens via a network that is completely decentralized. + The data and technology that makes the entire interaction possible is not reliant on nor controlled by any single entity.
+To understand precisely what LBRY is and why it matters, one must understand both LBRY as a protocol and the services the protocol enables. HTTP is the protocol that makes web browsing possible, but it would be of little interest without the service of a web browser!
@@ -77,6 +82,8 @@For a user using LBRY at the service level, the magic of what the LBRY protocol does will be largely transparent, much as a typical internet user sees nothing of how HTTP works. Via a LBRY application, a user will be able to open a familiar interface to quickly and easily discover and purchase a piece of digital content published by anyone in the world.
However, such an application would not be possible without the LBRY the underlying layer, the LBRY protocol.
+ +While the protocol is one comprehensive set of rules, it is easier to understand as two parts.
While payments can be issued directly on the LBRY blockchain, the LBRY protocol encourages a volume of transactions that will not scale without usage of offchain settlement.
-Essentially, rather than issue a transaction to the core blockchain, transactions are issued to a 3rd-party provider. These providers have a substantial number of coins which are used to maintain balances internally and settle a smaller number of transactions to the core chain. In exchange, these providers earn a small fee, less than the fee required to issue the transaction directly to the blockchain.
+Essentially, rather than issue a transaction to the core blockchain, transactions are issued to a 3rd-party provider. These providers have a substantial number of coins which are used to maintain balances internally and settle a smaller number of transactions to the core chain. In exchange, these providers earn a small fee, less than the fee required to issue the transaction directly to the blockchain.
* +LBRY Credits, or LBC, are the unit of account for LBRY. Eventually 1,000,000,000 LBC will exist, according to a defined schedule over 20 years. The schedule decays exponentially, with around 100,000,000 in the first year.
Additionally, some credits are awarded on a fixed basis. The total break down looks like this:
As names in demand on LBRY will be more expensive, the names themselves will also serve as a signal of reputation, legitimacy, and quality. If a user searches LBRY for Spider Man and sees one at lbry://spiderman and one at lbry://spiderman_russhaxor, there will be little doubt that the latter is less legitimate.
-As neither naïfs nor knaves, we acknowledge that LBRY can be used for bad ends. Technology is frequently this way. Encryption protects our privacy -- as well as that of terrorists. Cars allow us to travel marvelous distances -- and kill millions per year.
The downside to LBRY is that it can be used to exchange illegal content. However, several factors of LBRY make illicit usage less likely than it may seem at first consideration. On the whole, as with the car and encryption, the benefits of LBRY clearly outway nefarious uses.
@@ -228,8 +236,95 @@If LBRY succeeds, we will enter a world that is even more creative, connected, and conservatory. We will waste less and we make more. We will create a world where a teenager in Kenya and a reality star in Los Angeles use the same tool to search the same network and have access to the same results -- a world where information, knowledge, and imagination know no borders.
-Build our dream with us. Download LBRY at lbry.io/get.
+Build our dream with us. Download LBRY at lbry.io/get.
While the protocol is one comprehensive set of rules, it is easier to understand as two parts.
+A blockchain, or distributed ledger is the key innovation behind the Bitcoin network. Blockchains solved the very complicated technological problem of having a bunch of distributed, disparate entities all agree on a rivalrous state of affairs (like how much money they owe each other).
+ +Like Bitcoin, the LBRY blockchain maintain balances -- in this case, balances of LBC, LBRY’s unit of credit. More importantly, the LBRY blockchain also provides a decentralized lookup and metadata storage system. The LBRY blockchain supports a specific set of commands that allows anyone to bid (in LBC) to control a LBRY name, which is a lot like a domain name. Whoever controls a name gets to describe what it contains, what it costs to access, who to pay, and where to find it. These names are sold in a continuous running auction. We will talk more about this system a little later on.
+ +If you’re a programmer, you might recognize the LBRY blockchain as a key-value store. Each key, or name, corresponds to a value, or a metadata entry. Whichever party or parties bid the most LBC gets to control the metadata returned by a key lookup.
+ +Here is a sample key-value entry in the LBRY blockchain. Here, wonderfullife is the key, and the rest of the description is the value.
+
+ 
+ 
+ wonderfullife : {
+ title: "It’s a Wonderful Life",
+ description: "An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.",
+ thumbnail: "http://i.imgur.com/MW45x88.jpg",
+ license: "public domain",
+ price: 0, //free!
+ publisher: "A Fan Of George Bailey", //simplification
+ sources: { //extensible, variable list
+ lbry_hash : <unique id>,
+ url : <url>
+ }
+ }
Other than the usage of the LBRY blockchain to store names and metadata, there are only minor differences between the blockchains of LBRY and Bitcoin, and the changes are generally consensus improvements. We’ve buffed the hashing algorithm, smoothed the block reward function, increased the block size, increased the total number of credits, and prepared for offchain settlement.
+ +The LBRY blockchain simply maintains LBC balances and a content namespace/catalogue. The next part, LBRYnet, specifies what to do with this data. To compare to the existing web, the blockchain is like the domain system (it maintains a listing of what is available), while the next piece makes it possible to actually fetch and pay for content.
+ + +LBRYNet is the layer that makes the LBRY blockchain useful beyond a simple payment system. It says what to do with the information available in the LBRY blockchain, how to issue payments, how to look up a content identifier, and so on.
+ +To use the LBRY network, a user’s computer needs the capacity to speak LBRY. That layer is LBRYNet. Just as your computer has a library that enables it to understand HTTP, DNS, and other languages and protocols, LBRYNet is the piece of software that allows your computer to understand how to interact with the LBRY network.
+ +To understand what role LBRYNet plays, let’s drill a little more into a sample user interaction. Once a user has affirmed access and purchase, such as in step 5 of our Sample Use above, the following happens:
+ +Services are what actually make the LBRY protocol useful. While the LBRY protocol determines what is possible, it is the services that actually do things.
+ +While the protocol is determined, open, and fixed, the service layer is much more flexible. It is far easier to redesign a website than it is to revise the HTTP protocol itself. The same is true here.
+ +Additionally, just as in the early days of the internet the later direction of web would have been unfathomable, so too may the best uses of LBRY’s namespace or technology be undiscovered. However, here are some clear uses.
+A LBRY application is how a user would actually have meaningful interactions with the LBRY network. A LBRY client packages the power of the LBRY protocol into a simple application that allows the user to simply search for content, pay for it when necessary, download and enjoy.
+ +Additionally, a LBRY client can allow users to passively participate in the network, allowing them to automatically earn rewards in exchange for contributing bandwidth, disk space, or processing power to the overall network.
+ +Applications beyond a traditional computer based browser are possible as well. A LBRY television dongle, a LBRY radio, and any number of existing content access mechanisms can be implemented via an analogous LBRY device.
+Although the namespace provided by the LBRY protocol is helpful towards discovery, much as the web would be much less useful without search engines or aggregators, LBRY needs it’s own discovery mechanisms.
+ +Search features can be constructed from the catalogue of metadata provided in the blockchain as well as the content transaction history available in the blockchain or observed on the network. All of this data, along with user history, allows for the creation of content recommendation engines and advanced search features.
+ +Discovery on LBRY can also take the form of featured content. Clients can utilize featured content to provide additional visibility for new content that consumers might not otherwise be looking for.
+Digital content distributors with server-client models are subject to the whims of internet service providers and hostile foreign governments. Traffic from the host servers can be throttled or halted altogether if the owners of cables and routers so choose. However, in case of the LBRY protocol content comes from anywhere and everywhere, and is therefore not so easily stifled.
+ +Additionally, the market mechanisms of LBRY create a strong incentive for efficient distribution, which will save the costs of producers and ISPs alike. These properties, along with LBRY’s infringement disincentivizing properties, make LBRY an appealing technology for large existing data or content distributors.
+While payments can be issued directly on the LBRY blockchain, the LBRY protocol encourages a volume of transactions that will not scale without usage of offchain settlement.
+ +Essentially, rather than issue a transaction to the core blockchain, transactions are issued to a 3rd-party provider. These providers have a substantial number of coins which are used to maintain balances internally and settle a smaller number of transactions to the core chain. In exchange, these providers earn a small fee, less than the fee required to issue the transaction directly to the blockchain.
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