NEM & Alexandria

Ideas
#1

There is a very interesting development of [url=http://blocktech.com/]Alexandria. The altcoin [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236742.0]FLO ([url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236742.0]Florincoin) attached currently to Alexandria platform. However, in a [url=http://n-o-d-e.net/post/121174769401/the-alexandria-interview-rebuilding-the-great]recent interview the CEO Devon Read said:

Florincoin is a two year old fork of litecoin that was the first cryptocurrency to offer built in support for transaction comments. Each tx gives us 528 bytes of data at the cost of .25 FLO in miner fees. So when a user publishes an artifact, we can store not just the hash that the Alexandria browser uses to find the media itself in the IPFS DHT, but also a fair amount of descriptive info, genre, tags, references to additional media like thumbnail images and tipping/payment info. Some argue that using an alt is a bad idea because of the history of p&d scams in altcoins, but we think those kinds of things can be overcome and that this is the best solution for our
#2

Good idea !
I'm a little worried about it ending up being another piece of nothing but it can't hurt to try :slight_smile:

#3

These words were said probably no accident

if ultimately that requires changing one particular piece in the puzzle, or even many of them, we
#4

I sent him a message.  Lets see if he replies.

Thanks for the heads up andme

#5

He isn't interested.  He was more or less just trying to spur his community into action by saying that. 

#6

He isn't interested.  He was more or less just trying to spur his community into action by saying that.


From my interaction with Devon he's really locked into his own world...
And he's basing the entire Alexandria project on a coin that can be destroyed with < $50,000 of scrypt hashing power.

Long time FLO community members are concerned he's leading FLO to destruction...
Because torrent sites are a very common target for DDOS.

NEM needs to get busy with torrents... here's a main NXT thread on their thinking.

https://nxtforum.org/general-discussion/%28preview%29-torrents-plugin/

The last few posts are intersting...
Strip clubs are closing down all over the world because the girls can make more $$$ as web cam girls...
So this is one major application that does not involve DMCA, but requires torrent  live streaming.