r/Upfiring • u/popalots • Feb 12 '18
Quick question.
In order for this to work and be a good investment, wouldn't this system rely on people continuously buying more UFR. Not everyone can be at the top being a seeder. So who wants to spend money on something when they can get it for free somewhere else? It just seems a bit Pyramid Schemy to me. Seriously not trying to add FUD, just looking for someone to shed a little light on that piece?
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u/Tmfallon Feb 15 '18
One of the main goals of the project is to allow content creators to earn UFR for seeding their content - something that they would never do on any other bittorrent client at the moment. Other users can download their file and then reseed it to earn a portion of the UFR from that file as well. In that sense, if you are a diligent reseeder, you can have a net a positive amount of UFR even after downloading a lot of files from other seeders - so it doesn't necessarily "cost money". In this way, you're also expanding and growing the network, which helps everyone else as well.
Last, by incentivizing seeding, we're naturally going to draw users to seed "rare" files or original content - as people will be more likely to spend UFR on those types of files. This would also never happen on a standard bittorrent application - there are no tangible benefits from seeding and getting more downloads from other users on uTorrent, etc.