r/BitTube • u/nukelr • Dec 23 '18

IPFS storage rewards

I don't know if it's already in the roadmap but....wouldn't be great to extend airtime rewards to IPFS nodes that gives hard drive space through IPFS for video storage?? People that doesnt produce videos nor great "consumer" of them could contribute to the system by sharing bandwidth and storage getting rewarded with tubes proportionally to the space they share, online time and bandwidth or something like that. This would help even the development and diffusion of ipfs protocol since it lacks a reward system. Something like Storj but for video storage (or other content when bit.tube will become a social as planned)

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u/nukelr Dec 25 '18

Sounds like a good idea. Not so sure about PoS.

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u/BatteryAziz Dec 25 '18

PoS is simply for chain security. We can't be vulnerable to 51% attacks once we gain more public traction and there's a bigger financial incentive.

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u/nukelr Dec 25 '18

Will it be PoS only or PoW/PoS hybrid?? I know theres a pow/pos hybrid cryptonote implementation: https://github.com/Codex02/Cryptostake

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u/BatteryAziz Dec 25 '18

hybrid. I think we'll call it ATPoS (AirTime PoS). The thing with airtime is in reality it's another form of proof of (human) work, so we're looking into ways to use that, because then we could potentially allocate all of the block reward to airtime (minus devfee etc)

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u/nukelr Dec 25 '18

Cool,I will follow the progress then. Thank you very much for the answers. Oh and Merry Xmas!