LBRY Credits site is finally LIVE - Coin up 40% now today on the News: The emails went out to holders/users today!! LBRY Credits 101 & info/overview/VIDEO also here.
This video and content streaming site/marketplace to destroy censorship like YouTube etc -- has been in the works a long time. This could be a real gamechanger to put control back in the hands of content creators and consumers.
I have put together a COMPLETE TLDR Overview here for you on the news and what LBRY is as the BETA launch is finally here.
As I mentioned, LBRY is way up, here is the current 7D chart!! (:
What is LBRY? / TLDR version:
LBRY is a free, open, and community-run digital marketplace.
You own your data. You control the network. Indeed, you are the network.
Hollywood films, college lessons, amazing streamers and more are on the first media network ruled by you.
https://lbry.io/faq/what-is-lbry
VIDEO: What is LBRY in 90 seconds - direct from their website.
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This video and content streaming site/marketplace to destroy censorship like YouTube etc -- has been in the works a long time. This could be a real gamechanger to put control back in the hands of content creators and consumers.
I have put together a COMPLETE TLDR Overview here for you on the news and what LBRY is as the BETA launch is finally here.
As I mentioned, LBRY is way up, here is the current 7D chart!! (:
What is LBRY? / TLDR version:
LBRY is a free, open, and community-run digital marketplace.
You own your data. You control the network. Indeed, you are the network.
Hollywood films, college lessons, amazing streamers and more are on the first media network ruled by you.
https://lbry.io/faq/what-is-lbry
VIDEO: What is LBRY in 90 seconds - direct from their website.
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What is LBRY exactly – is it a protocol, an app, a website, a company?
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LBRY is many components working together.
For most users, it will just be a place where they can find great videos, music, ebooks, and more. A vast digital library available on all of your devices.
But behind that experience is an ecosystem that can be hard to understand at first – especially because we tend to refer to all the pieces and the system-as-a-whole as “LBRY”. (We’re working on clearing that up.)
It might be easier to start with what LBRY is not: it is not just another corporate media service like YouTube or iTunes or Spotify.
It is first and foremost a new protocol that allows artists to upload their content to a network of hosts (like BitTorrent) and set a price per stream or download (like iTunes) or give it away for free (like YouTube without ads). What makes this all possible is the blockchain technology developed by the founder of Bitcoin. Do you have to understand any of this to use and enjoy LBRY? No. Does it still matter to users? Yes!
Gmail has built an extremely popular email service on top of the near-universal SMTP protocol that everyone uses to exchange emails. Anyone sending email with SMTP can communicate with Gmail addresses, no matter what email platform they use (Yahoo!, AOL, iCloud, etc.). Google can’t interfere with someone emailing from a @yahoo.com address to an @aol.com address – and users are free to switch between services at any time, taking their emails with them. Users have a lot of power in open protocols that is often taken for granted.
Compare this to a proprietary, centrally controlled service like Facebook Messenger. If you conduct all of your social communications via Messenger, you’re stuck in that environment – you cannot move your messages or contacts over to Google Chat or Skype. And if Facebook changes the way Messenger functions by censoring conversations or sharing your information with advertisers or governments, tough luck.
Even platforms that are ostensibly designed with the user’s control and privacy in mind are susceptible to corruption if they are centrally controlled. WhatsApp comes to mind. WhatsApp built a huge global user base claiming to put users above advertisers. Then Facebook bought it. Now users may well have their personal phone numbers and metadata mined for Facebook’s advertising algorithms.
There is no such risk of top-down corruption with the LBRY protocol. Content uploaded to the decentralized LBRY network remains publicly accessible so long as the community finds it valuable and continues to host it.
Now, the LBRY project is more than just a revolutionary new protocol. It is also a company, LBRY Inc., which is developing a LBRY app to allow users to easily interact with the protocol. So it’s as if Google had developed the email protocol, released it to the world for free, and then built Gmail to help people make use of it. Not only is our app completely open-source, but others are welcome to create competing apps that also use the LBRY protocol. For a content creator, your uploaded content will be available to all of these apps at the same time.
Do you see the difference here? YouTube can afford to push around its creators and users because they’ve created tremendous lock-in. LBRY is challenging this model from the ground-up. Everything we’ve built is open-source, decentralized, and belongs to the community using it. LBRY Inc. could go bankrupt tomorrow and the LBRY protocol will live on.
Can YouTube say that?
LBRY complete contact list:
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https://www.facebook.com/lbryio
Highlights / Quotes from the LBRY email today:
The Wait is Over.
Stream movies. Discover your favorite channels. Download music and books.
Choose your OS
Windows
Mac OS
Linux
Your Early Access Code (Deleted/privacy obviously)
Enter this code after downloading the app to earn free LBC rewards.
Learning LBRY
Explore the app! Stream videos!
Earn LBRY Credits (LBC) via in-app rewards.
Interact with other users in our Slack community.
Having Trouble?
We're here to help. Contact help@lbry.io if you have trouble accessing LBRY. To report bugs, use the Issue section on our GitHub.
Thanks for your support. Welcome to the LBRY Beta.
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Please note -- I will have limited internet access for awhile -- so PLEASE do not be upset that I cannot reply right away, or to everyone. I am dealing with some changes, and will have limited time online and will be happy if I get a few blog posts up a week.
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LBRY is many components working together.
For most users, it will just be a place where they can find great videos, music, ebooks, and more. A vast digital library available on all of your devices.
But behind that experience is an ecosystem that can be hard to understand at first – especially because we tend to refer to all the pieces and the system-as-a-whole as “LBRY”. (We’re working on clearing that up.)
It might be easier to start with what LBRY is not: it is not just another corporate media service like YouTube or iTunes or Spotify.
It is first and foremost a new protocol that allows artists to upload their content to a network of hosts (like BitTorrent) and set a price per stream or download (like iTunes) or give it away for free (like YouTube without ads). What makes this all possible is the blockchain technology developed by the founder of Bitcoin. Do you have to understand any of this to use and enjoy LBRY? No. Does it still matter to users? Yes!
Gmail has built an extremely popular email service on top of the near-universal SMTP protocol that everyone uses to exchange emails. Anyone sending email with SMTP can communicate with Gmail addresses, no matter what email platform they use (Yahoo!, AOL, iCloud, etc.). Google can’t interfere with someone emailing from a @yahoo.com address to an @aol.com address – and users are free to switch between services at any time, taking their emails with them. Users have a lot of power in open protocols that is often taken for granted.
Compare this to a proprietary, centrally controlled service like Facebook Messenger. If you conduct all of your social communications via Messenger, you’re stuck in that environment – you cannot move your messages or contacts over to Google Chat or Skype. And if Facebook changes the way Messenger functions by censoring conversations or sharing your information with advertisers or governments, tough luck.
Even platforms that are ostensibly designed with the user’s control and privacy in mind are susceptible to corruption if they are centrally controlled. WhatsApp comes to mind. WhatsApp built a huge global user base claiming to put users above advertisers. Then Facebook bought it. Now users may well have their personal phone numbers and metadata mined for Facebook’s advertising algorithms.
There is no such risk of top-down corruption with the LBRY protocol. Content uploaded to the decentralized LBRY network remains publicly accessible so long as the community finds it valuable and continues to host it.
Now, the LBRY project is more than just a revolutionary new protocol. It is also a company, LBRY Inc., which is developing a LBRY app to allow users to easily interact with the protocol. So it’s as if Google had developed the email protocol, released it to the world for free, and then built Gmail to help people make use of it. Not only is our app completely open-source, but others are welcome to create competing apps that also use the LBRY protocol. For a content creator, your uploaded content will be available to all of these apps at the same time.
Do you see the difference here? YouTube can afford to push around its creators and users because they’ve created tremendous lock-in. LBRY is challenging this model from the ground-up. Everything we’ve built is open-source, decentralized, and belongs to the community using it. LBRY Inc. could go bankrupt tomorrow and the LBRY protocol will live on.
Can YouTube say that?
LBRY complete contact list:
--
https://www.facebook.com/lbryio
Highlights / Quotes from the LBRY email today:
The Wait is Over.
Stream movies. Discover your favorite channels. Download music and books.
Choose your OS
Windows
Mac OS
Linux
Your Early Access Code (Deleted/privacy obviously)
Enter this code after downloading the app to earn free LBC rewards.
Learning LBRY
Explore the app! Stream videos!
Earn LBRY Credits (LBC) via in-app rewards.
Interact with other users in our Slack community.
Having Trouble?
We're here to help. Contact help@lbry.io if you have trouble accessing LBRY. To report bugs, use the Issue section on our GitHub.
Thanks for your support. Welcome to the LBRY Beta.
--
Thanks for reading, have a nice day.
If you liked this blog post - please Resteem it and share good content with others!
--
Some of my recent blogs:
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Gif's - via Giphy.com , Funny or Die.com
If you feel my posts are undervalued or you want to donate to tip me - I would appreciate it very much.
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Please note -- I will have limited internet access for awhile -- so PLEASE do not be upset that I cannot reply right away, or to everyone. I am dealing with some changes, and will have limited time online and will be happy if I get a few blog posts up a week.
LBRY is many components working together.
For most users, it will just be a place where they can find great videos, music, ebooks, and more. A vast digital library available on all of your devices.
But behind that experience is an ecosystem that can be hard to understand at first – especially because we tend to refer to all the pieces and the system-as-a-whole as “LBRY”. (We’re working on clearing that up.)
It might be easier to start with what LBRY is not: it is not just another corporate media service like YouTube or iTunes or Spotify.
It is first and foremost a new protocol that allows artists to upload their content to a network of hosts (like BitTorrent) and set a price per stream or download (like iTunes) or give it away for free (like YouTube without ads). What makes this all possible is the blockchain technology developed by the founder of Bitcoin. Do you have to understand any of this to use and enjoy LBRY? No. Does it still matter to users? Yes!
Gmail has built an extremely popular email service on top of the near-universal SMTP protocol that everyone uses to exchange emails. Anyone sending email with SMTP can communicate with Gmail addresses, no matter what email platform they use (Yahoo!, AOL, iCloud, etc.). Google can’t interfere with someone emailing from a @yahoo.com address to an @aol.com address – and users are free to switch between services at any time, taking their emails with them. Users have a lot of power in open protocols that is often taken for granted.
Compare this to a proprietary, centrally controlled service like Facebook Messenger. If you conduct all of your social communications via Messenger, you’re stuck in that environment – you cannot move your messages or contacts over to Google Chat or Skype. And if Facebook changes the way Messenger functions by censoring conversations or sharing your information with advertisers or governments, tough luck.
Even platforms that are ostensibly designed with the user’s control and privacy in mind are susceptible to corruption if they are centrally controlled. WhatsApp comes to mind. WhatsApp built a huge global user base claiming to put users above advertisers. Then Facebook bought it. Now users may well have their personal phone numbers and metadata mined for Facebook’s advertising algorithms.
There is no such risk of top-down corruption with the LBRY protocol. Content uploaded to the decentralized LBRY network remains publicly accessible so long as the community finds it valuable and continues to host it.
Now, the LBRY project is more than just a revolutionary new protocol. It is also a company, LBRY Inc., which is developing a LBRY app to allow users to easily interact with the protocol. So it’s as if Google had developed the email protocol, released it to the world for free, and then built Gmail to help people make use of it. Not only is our app completely open-source, but others are welcome to create competing apps that also use the LBRY protocol. For a content creator, your uploaded content will be available to all of these apps at the same time.
Do you see the difference here? YouTube can afford to push around its creators and users because they’ve created tremendous lock-in. LBRY is challenging this model from the ground-up. Everything we’ve built is open-source, decentralized, and belongs to the community using it. LBRY Inc. could go bankrupt tomorrow and the LBRY protocol will live on.
Can YouTube say that?
LBRY complete contact list:
--
https://www.facebook.com/lbryio
Highlights / Quotes from the LBRY email today:
The Wait is Over.
Stream movies. Discover your favorite channels. Download music and books.
Choose your OS
Windows
Mac OS
Linux
Your Early Access Code (Deleted/privacy obviously)
Enter this code after downloading the app to earn free LBC rewards.
Learning LBRY
Explore the app! Stream videos!
Earn LBRY Credits (LBC) via in-app rewards.
Interact with other users in our Slack community.
Having Trouble?
We're here to help. Contact help@lbry.io if you have trouble accessing LBRY. To report bugs, use the Issue section on our GitHub.
Thanks for your support. Welcome to the LBRY Beta.
--
Thanks for reading, have a nice day.
If you liked this blog post - please Resteem it and share good content with others!
--
Some of my recent blogs:
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If you feel my posts are undervalued or you want to donate to tip me - I would appreciate it very much.
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This is some great news! No wonder all the LBRY price movements and such! :)
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Cool! I hope LBRY does not get used for the wrong purposes. :)
That possibility exists for almost anything as we know but I am with you.
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Anybody who wants some content go to LBRY://@heymattsokol in the app! I've uploaded around a dozen videos up there.
LBRY has a great team and has made huge progress since I first learned about it. I'm optimistic for them to co-exist alongside Steem as part of the new media economy.
Hey Matt Sokol!
LOL........ Thanks Matt!
I am headed to Torontostan shortly for a Blockchain Canada event, if you find the time to check back here a couple times, I will be gone for several hours and maybe you can answer a couple questions for people.
It would be appreciated my man.
Co exist is a great way to put it for sure.
Can do.
I'm stoked for this...thanks for the update. That explains the price movement...
I am happy.
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Good news thanks for sharing it with steemit community.
Great content you put together for the community, i will check it out !
good news .. thanks for the update..
Have a great day
I need to learn what exactly a blockchain is and with relative urgency it seems - what is going on?! 🙂
Thanks for another easy to read post Barry. LBRY seems like a really unique challenger to Youtube in the future. Competition is always a good thing for the general public.
I edited the post, the coin was up 30, then 35 now 40% today, here is what I added to the main post early on: