Move Over Periscope and Meerkat, Streamium.io + Bitcoin is Here
Streamium.io is definitely one of the most exciting creations to come out the Bitcoin community lately. Twitter was taken by storm upon its launch it seems, with praises for its decentralized realtime streaming video service; a service that gives Meerkat and Periscope a run for their money. It wasn’t but a few weeks ago the tech media outlets were abuzz over Meerkat and Periscope and their possibilities for disrupting realtime hyper-local streaming from mobile devices. “Finally, a super quick and simple method for video sharing”, they exclaimed. The arguments raged for weeks in the media....
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Streamium's new technology will challenge streaming services such as Livestream - at least that's what the Streamium team believes. By offering streaming in a decentralized and trustless manner, Streamium could be content producers way of getting paid in real time. The Streamium team envisions Streamium as a decentralized trustless video streaming platform, allowing audiences and publishers to work together in a pay-as-you-go model. Streamium wants to empower teachers, coaches, performers, sportsmen and gamers to connect with other people online and broadcast their services or experiences....
Suzanne Nguyen is a bright and off-the-cuff young woman who makes videos of herself several times per week. She streams using an app called Meerkat on her smartphone, and her streams are so popular that she’s been dubbed a “power user.” Streaming was just a fun hobby for Suzanne until she received monetary profit in the form of a Bitcoin tip. Now,....
DeFi is "flourished by human greed," according to a developer for the exploited project There may be good news on the horizon for the victims of one of DeFi’s largest-ever exploits. At 5:30 AM UTC today, a Meerkat Finance developer identifying themselves as “Jamboo” posted a short message in a newly-created Telegram channel, “Meerkatrefunds.” In it, Jamboo said that the exploit was a “trial” testing users’ greed and “subjectivity,” and that the team was preparing to refund all victims. Jamboo provided proof of their association with Meerkat by sending a small transaction from the Meerkat....
The launch of Streamium was announced via Reddit yesterday. The new application from Manuel Aráoz and company was created to build a direct connection between video streamers and their viewers. Video streaming is dealt with on a peer-to-peer (P2P) basis via WebRTC, and payments for viewing a stream are made possible through the use of bitcoin and payment channels. A stream of small, off-chain payments are made to the broadcaster every second as the viewer continues to watch a stream, and all of those micropayments are then combined into one larger payment that is made via the bitcoin....
A group of veteran developers recently harnessed the Bitcoin technology to create Streamium, a decentralized pay-as-you-go video streaming platform. So often it happens that the viewers leave the paid video streaming in midway. It subsequently ends up divesting the broadcaster from being paid - even for the part that was consumed by the viewer. They [the broadcasters] therefore choose to operate via trusted companies, such as Netflix, that offer marketing, streaming and payment services - all at the same time. The core focus of Streamium, on the other hand, is to create trust between two....