Napster, plus a way to monetize the content? That's how I read the beginner doc on the LivePeer site this article links to.
"Livepeer’s peer-to-peer network lets you stream what you want, when you want, without a single point of failure or censorship."
Yeah, that's just plain ol' P2P. Blockchain is distributing a public list of transactions via P2P. Livepeer is using a blockchain to record streaming transactions, and pay the node responsible for streaming.
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Napster, plus a way to monetize the content? That's how I read the beginner doc on the LivePeer site this article links to.
"Livepeer’s peer-to-peer network lets you stream what you want, when you want, without a single point of failure or censorship."
Yeah, that's just plain ol' P2P. Blockchain is distributing a public list of transactions via P2P. Livepeer is using a blockchain to record streaming transactions, and pay the node responsible for streaming.