On: Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff

[huytersd]

I’m sure something like this already exists but can’t there be a distributed streaming platform that pays people fractions of a penny for hosting (all/part) of a video like bitorrent. I’m sure there’s some cryptocurrency equivalent. Or even better some combination of CDNs and distributed bitorrent like streaming. At the very least, it should atleast ease the burden of massive central hosting.

[ansible → huytersd]

That might work for pre-recorded video, but I don't think it would be stable and reliable for live streams.