What are the possibilities for adding image/video content directly to the blockchain rather than using 3rd party hosting? I guess you'd need really big blocks?
A better way is to post a decrypt hash to the blockchain and a link to where the content is hosted. That proves you own the content because you own the keys that posted the hash.
That's one feature, I guess, but it doesn't make the content uncensorable or available in the event of hosting outages.
I mean it's your own damn fault if you don't back up your files.
Your files? I'm not sure we are discussing the same thing. I'm talking about making a YouTube clone where everything included the videos are hosted on the blockchain.
It would never happen in a big way because the barrier to entry for YouTube is having a camera and an internet connection. What you're describing would be thousands of dollars.
YouTube still works reasonably well, but it's centralized, so censorship and demonetization will probably increase. I don't think a P2P distributed data store needs to be that pricey.
Remember just 32 megabytes is going to run you about $50. So it's only going to be used for notary/archival type stuff. Money txns are cheap because they're very tiny.
Ok, that's obviously a major problem. Maybe another P2P solution then. Bittorrent, IPFS or something.
Hmmm. If we for example put all YouTube videos on the blockchain, it's clearly going to be enormous. I don't think it's practical to have 10000s of identical copies in that case.
...So we'd have to split it up in some way, and maybe store a handful of copies of every file distributed across the network.
I don't think anyone is going to pay $500 to upload cat videos to the block chain.
Oh somebody DEFINITELY will. Rich people can be just as retarded as anyone else.
Ok right, and if you were a miner what would you do in that situation? I would print the cat video as a monument to that persons stupidity.
Somebody's gonna get the fee for it, might as well be me ;)
If blockchain works exactly as now, yes. But what if it was only partially duplicated, with perhaps 1000 full copies in total rather than one for each node (perhaps millions)?
As long as its decentralized enough yeah I could see there only being a few tens of thousand full copies. Storage is cheap and only getting cheaper!
Even if you manage saving to the blockchain, how would you manage searching and playing for the users? Where would it all be indexed? On some 3rd party hosting?
Well, maybe like the platform does it you're currently writing on? You can just query the blockchain for a certain byte pattern prefix you define to identify the content.
You could just store bigger data distributed into multiple transactions and then combine those transactions to get the full content.
Ok. It seems it would still be too expensive for a video site though, with 32mb costing $50.
