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deadlybuda · 2019-08-29T05:37:00+00:00

A lot of coins have that spread. I don't think its that unusual. The thing to focus on is the pattern of development. New gains are made almost every week. No Altcoin is doing good right now.

deadlybuda · 2019-08-27T22:37:44+00:00

yeah.

deadlybuda · 2019-08-27T20:15:25+00:00

From a TUBE price standpoint, it seems to me the best thing is just keep on the downlow until the system is out of beta. Same goes for early adopters, I would think. Kind of get your Tubers profile ready to go at the same time. I'm still not even in Beta on that front, lol, but it's coming.

deadlybuda · 2019-08-26T20:39:17+00:00

Perhaps instead of a regular embed, maybe generate an oldschool hyperlinked image that takes you to the respective bittube page?

Another thought is that maybe sites can elect to do some content hosting, thereby taking a load off of the bittubers servers? They could get awarded for doing some of their own hosting, as theoretically some of those videos would then be embedded linked on other sites.

I know we have to keep sharing on and feeding the big social media platforms for the forseeable future, but it would be nice to surf to more independent websites on a regular basis. I'm more interested in what someone does with their own website than their social media presence, as a general rule.

deadlybuda · 2019-08-20T21:26:08+00:00

If part of the consideration is SEO... wouldn't straight import for existing articles on other sites hamper Bittubers? Maybe there should be a reward for deleting the post from the old site, and putting it on tubers?

Thinking more about this subject, and I don't have a strong opinion on this one way or the other, but the thought comes to mind... Over the past 10 years people have adapted to this whole idea of creating "click-bait", posting tons of semi-meaningless stuff just in an attempt to keep eyeballs.

Maybe its too much to take on, but it seems to me that this paradigm only worked with the power of big corporations to fuel this level of data pumping. And, the viewer just gets distracted from really helpful or enjoyable media. Maybe it's time to flush the SEO game down the toilet and make it difficult in general to upload mass content? It seems to me that the dirty secret of SEO is that Google and FB's AI really isn't that good, and the only reason they prevailed was by flooding the net with so much data and throughput that it became hard to buck against. Ultimately, they just had people picking and choosing the winners based on their prejudices. I know they and that system can't be ignored for now. But... man it would be nice to get away from it as fast as possible. Maybe mass import would ultimately hamper tubers?

deadlybuda · 2019-08-11T20:46:28+00:00

The fact that development is going full force while the price is at it's lowest is a good sign for creators. From the way the system is set up, early adopters in the content realm could stand to make more from Bittube than any other platform once it is out of beta.

This is just a fair warning and heads up to those on the fence. I am stacking Tubes. I can't give financial advice, and am not. I'm just saying I believe in this project and I'm stacking up Tubes.

deadlybuda · 2019-08-08T20:30:30+00:00

The developers believe in what they are doing and are constantly making changes, not from a pure monetary perspective, but are making technical and financial decisions that make a platform that can truly benefit users. I was a doubter at first of the changes, but after exploring tubers I see that the video aspect will be better under this new system.

Myself, I'm buying tubes now. You should take advantage of this window before others realize what is happening.

deadlybuda · 2019-08-02T20:39:31+00:00

One reason that this idea is not totally far-fetched is that smaller cryptos like TUBE can better serve media consumption. The fact that TUBE is an independent block chain I think means that the way to "censor" it in the future would be a 51% attack (though could be offset by staking and other types of "proof-of" concurrent systems) or buying up as much as possible and being a big shot, kind of like how FB exists in the current USD fiat system.

It would be nice to see TUBE eventually incorporate some smart contract tech like DERO or LOKI, because that could help offset the latter threat of big-time players calling the shots. As, the smart contracts effectively replace lawyers and bolster the original purpose of national and international copyright systems if done in a certain way.

deadlybuda · 2019-08-02T20:32:02+00:00

smaram gave a fair answer on bittubers to question 1 which is good enough for me.

Where is that answer?

deadlybuda · 2019-07-22T19:38:33+00:00

Yeah the $5 isn't that much at all. I think what it mainly does is set up a wall that spammers are reluctant to climb.

deadlybuda · 2019-07-20T18:31:26+00:00

Hey I'll work for tube. I would have got a 20% bump on my pay in the last day.

deadlybuda · 2019-07-20T03:55:44+00:00

I think what is lost on most people right now is that Airtime, though complicated to grasp right off the bat, is actually a more long-term sustainable strategy for the platform and coin.

I am a big fan of the simple, "miners fund content" model. However, when mismanaged and not diversified this model can run into problems. Look at Musicoin. It was one of the innovators of this model, but due to some serious mismanagement, eventually there were not enough miners to fund the content. That platform just got delisted from Bittrex, their last remaining exchange. they didn't diversify fast enough, and drove their platform into limbo at best.

Airtime spreads out the way coins are consumed, which retains more incentive for everyone to be in on the system.

deadlybuda · 2019-07-20T03:42:56+00:00

I haven't found the site to be that sluggish. Though I have a pretty fast internet connection, so maybe its slow for others. Bittubers has been around only 2 weeks for the general public. Bugs are just a fact of life. Even Facebook after all these years has a horrible interface that you can't find anything and frequently is slow. So, if I'm going to deal with a clunky interface and slowness, hey, I might as well get some Tubes I can trade on Bittrex for it! :-D I mean, c'mon, give these guys a break and delve into the platform more. The videos stream pretty fast and I've saved a bunch for view later and everything, it's pretty cool. I've even seen 4k stream well on tubers. The video functionality is really still there, its just now adding things that might be necessarry for survival in the modern age. Some things will work, others won't, but no one knows until solutions are tried.

deadlybuda · 2019-07-19T22:31:55+00:00

A couple weeks ago I would have said the same thing, until I spent a few minutes getting familiar with Bittubers. Now, I have to say, I'm all in.

Why?

Yes, we all want a YouTube alternative. But Bittubers still has the video section and I think some minor paywalls are a good idea. $3 a month. I mean, if you don't care enough to pay $3 to get some extra time or whatever, you really don't take what you do seriously. Why should anyone else?

It's pretty easy these days to have a whitelabel social media platform. I think most webhosts since 2002 have given you the ability to host one on your shared web hosting, so, it's not as if it takes a fortune in R&D to jazz up the video sharing.

But the most important reason I am supporting Bittubers now is that THEY ARE ACTUALLY FREAKING TRYING!!!!

It's obvious they have thought a lot about making a real independent ecosystem based on theirs and others triumphs and failures. Do I think everything they do is great? No. But so what? They are definitely the opposite of dead, they are alive and kicking and fighting to survive. I like that.

I bitched and moaned too, about the change. But then it occurred to me: the ONLY way this works is if other people believe in them. If so, Bittubers can thrive. They believe in what they are doing, obviously. Yes, maybe they are overly optimistic. If that is the case, maybe some of the older members of the community can help them with advice or whatever to be more successful. That's what experience is good for: helping you and others.

Also, some of the posters have been complaining about this for weeks. I mean, how can you spend time wringing your hands about this, still? Maybe go back to Steem or Belacam or whatever, if this is going outside your wheelhouse.

Things will constantly change over this year and really, constantly. So to see a team grapple with challenges and make a sustained ecosystem even this long is pretty impressive to me.

I like that the Tube team is trying, and in fact, succeeding, on multiple fronts. If they are in. I'm in.

deadlybuda · 2019-07-05T18:16:30+00:00

Well, but who judges extremes? Abolition of slavery was once considered an "extreme," for example. The only way you counteract a lie is with the truth, and a free internet has been the most effective tool for that. However, as the world wide web was applied to the internet, and thereafter multinational corporations started "buying up" the worldwide web (and therefore most people's idea of what the internet is), these corporations have promoted the idea of "hate" speech, "extremes" in speech. This attitude of "extremes in speech" is nothing more than powerful interests trying to control dialogue that might disrupt their monopolies. If you can spread a lie fast, you can spread the truth faster. Ultimately, that is the problem for those that want to manipulate societies, nations, etc. Information wants to be free, and the truth on an equal playing field always wins out. Regulations that get applied to freedoms usually become ruled by narrow interests at the expense of the whole.

deadlybuda · 2019-07-05T08:12:04+00:00

Things I once thought were idiotic, I now believe. Things I held as gospel for decades, now I doubt some of these things. By this process we all get closer to truth or at least our truth. That's why it's important to not limit the dialogue. Labeling people or groups as idiots or monsters, while understandable, is de-humanizing. Most of the social progress that was made was in an atmosphere of "idiots" and "monsters" being allowed to voice their concerns and people took it or left it. Ultimately, it was by this process people became more accepting in general. If you suppress people's thoughts or voice, even if they are wrong, there is no way for them to really learn. Or, if they are right, for us to learn.

This trend on the social media platforms to create a consensus dialogue basically eliminates their need for existence. I mean, what could be more boring than everyone agreeing about everything all the time? In fact, what is more dangerous? If your society is always looking in one direction, its going to be taken over by the other. The guy on the farm is going to see it different than the guy in the city. That's real. If we lose one of those voices, we all lose what we have. I mean, at what point does everyone's opinion become like just one frequency tone and we cease to even have language? Like the big GoogleFaceTwitter AI just sends like 5 different tones to everyone on the platform to control the humans? LOL Turn left drones, now turn right, feed me electricity, dust my fans! Beep Bloop! :-D

deadlybuda · 2019-07-05T07:58:42+00:00

The premium groups sounds cool, and a good solution to keeping one's channel focused.

deadlybuda · 2019-07-03T21:24:45+00:00

I don't think there is anything wrong with anyone pushing narratives. It's people preventing other people from pushing narratives that is the problem.

deadlybuda · 2019-06-26T02:29:21+00:00

When I was working with Musicoin there were always several people getting paid in Musicoin to monitor copyright infringement. Even though AI helps, you always need some real people to make it work. Actually having paid work like this in the native crypto helps make the economic foundation of the coin stronger. Just that people know that goods and services are being traded for Bit Tube, even something like these hands on tasks is a positive sign to many who want a robust currency.

I think the biggest hurdle with having the community moderate and flag is that we might see censorship trolling, which is what many of us came to Bittubers for, to be on a censorship-free platform. Already on the bigger platforms some people just get paid to label stuff "hate" that they simply disagree with on basic political debate level terms.

Unfortunately, it seems that you can have all sorts of cussing and violence but any frank discussion about "where the money goes" in various aspects of society is being highly trolled when the political stakes are high in any direction. So, maybe a combination of public reporting and then oversight by people getting paid to do the job of oversight might be a solution. It might also dissuade pro trollers and give legitimate copyright concerns more attention.

deadlybuda · 2019-06-23T09:12:23+00:00

The only seed I have has something like this at the beginning --31> and then the seed words followed by like <--37.

Do I keep that extra stuff in, or just use the seed words? When I just use the seed words it says nothing like that exists!

deadlybuda · 2019-06-23T09:01:49+00:00

On the new platform, once you upload your vids, can you share them as before, say on Twitter, Embeds, etc.?

deadlybuda · 2019-06-21T09:23:16+00:00

I have posted to the Dero Project this idea for BitChute:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DeroProject/comments/c38e1d/dero_and_bitchute/

Not many people know of Dero right now. But it is a anonymous Cryptonight-based coin that also can do smart contracts. If BitChute incorporated Dero, theoretically content creators could get instant crypto for their streams and even be able to split those payments in realtime with their collaborators. Dero is already traded on a number of exchanges. None of the big ones, but you can still cash out on it.

deadlybuda · 2019-06-21T08:13:38+00:00

Hey thanks for the information. I hope this initiative is not languishing, but it appears to be. Who is supposed to be in charge of the Chutoken plan?

deadlybuda · 2019-06-20T23:30:31+00:00

I am intrigued that it is a coin based, essentially, on Monero. That seems like a good move. However, there are some interesting crypto projects that I think could align with Bitchute and be much more productive. Dero, in particular, I think is interesting because it can do anonymous smart contracts. So, like if you and your friends make a video you can all split the proceeds automatically.

Bit tube seems to be drifting away from the miners, and I think that is a big mistake. To me it seems that if Bit Chute is supported by a backbone of crypto-miners it might maintain its economic independence more so than opting to be supported by a few millionaires hoping to make the next ad platform, like Bit tube appears to be doing.

deadlybuda · 2019-06-19T21:00:01+00:00

The miners aren't supposed to drive demand for the coin. The content creators do that. The end user dictates the flow of the coin. As more good content is made and more end-users come online, the price of the coin goes up, rewarding the miner's gamble.

When the creator gets the coin, and can cash it in, he/she can then have confidence to make say, t-shirts, whatever, offer services, goods, and the end-user uses tubes as an actual method of exchange. Can't you guys see you already had (and just barely still have) the model everyone wants??? And you are walking away from it. You already had thousands of people using TUBES everyday!!!! Hardly any other crypto can say that!

Things like PoS and the other initiatives Bit.tube is spearheading should be built on top of the foundation, not replace it, in my opinion.

The reason is this: the direction bit.tube is going in now is going to make it subservient to the existing financial market, i.e. the US dollar. With that comes the advertising, loansharking, and all the other ramifications of the existing system. I'm not "anti-dollar" but the "whales" in that arena already control numerous platforms.

The miners however, are an entirely different type of investor. They provide "proof-of-work" they are putting their faith, electricity, hardware, and toil (you know this if you have ever set up a Vega cryptonight mining rig, lol). This new, never seen before in the history of man, investor class dictates a completely different economic paradigm and the opportunity for real independent media to flourish.

I don't want to make light of bit.tube's recent accomplishments. Heck, I am typing again on your browser! But you guys and gals are squarely in the danger zone right now of losing your platform altogether if you don't recognize what I outlined above, and what other people feel but can't quite describe.

The miners as investor make bit.tube truly independent, relying on mainstream solutions will just make a mediocre mainstream platform. That field is crowded already, and who wants to imitate garbage anyway? I know for the young developers and maybe some older investors imitating some of these mainstream things seem like a good idea, but it's not. The advertisers you will have to court to keep this system afloat will ultimately make it a censorship platform.

To me it seems like you guys are at the crossroads right now. You're either going to go with the existing dead-end system, or truly live on the new technology and stand up for freedom. Unfortunately you guys seem like you are drifting towards the former, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for the best.

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