Title: LBRY uses a blockchain to store metadata related to digital content and provide pointers to a more traditional decentralized P2P network like BitTorrent. The blockchain also provides publisher identities, human-friendly URLs (e.g. lbry:&#x2F;&#x2F;@MinutePhysics&#x2F;magnetic-levitation), and a payment mechanism.<p>You can learn more at https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lbry.tech. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lbry.tech&#x2F;spec provides a detailed technical description of the protocol.<p>Unlike most blockchain companies, we did no ICO, no token sales to VCs, and have spent zero energy hyping or pumping the price of our coin.<p>Nonetheless, we were able to bank several million dollars at the peak of the cryptocurrency boom (we provide full transparency at https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lbry.io&#x2F;credit-reports).<p>HN is regularly and rightly skeptical of blockchain. So our questions are:<p>- Do you see this as a promising use of blockchain?<p>- Does https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lbry.tech&#x2F;spec provide a clear and thorough description of what LBRY is?<p>- How can we make LBRY better?<p>HN users seanyesmunt, lyoshenka and jiggytom all work on the LBRY project.
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