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Re: Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

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Post by kauffj »

tyingq wrote: post #62
kauffj wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It matches by claim id, which is a much longer hash, but the system will do partial matches. In the case of conflicting partial matches, the first claim (temporally) is resolved.

Edit: Ignore below...you already said earliest claim is preferred. I need to stop skimming. (or I missed a stealth edit?) Ah, so everything after the # is random then. And if you choose to abbreviate, you are risking whatever the collision likelihood is, in 4 bit increments, assuming the hash is hex digits. There doesn't appear to be a throttle on claims, so choosing to abbreviate with just one character could be ris…

Yes, substring matches prefer earlier claims.

Re: Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

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Post by kauffj »

visarga wrote: post #59
abraves10001 wrote: post #54

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Their essay has a tl;dr at the bottom, I didn't bother reading the actual essay. It was way too long, when all I wanted was the answers to the three questions you posed. >TL;DR Digital art is one of the first goods to evolve beyond scarcity. This evolution is changing the way content is discovered, publicized, paid for and delivered. Heretofore, the lack of transparency and monetization mechanisms in peer-to-peer sha…

Good description. I think the problem with paying for content is not that it doesn't have a fancy protocol based off blockchain and its own coin. It is that access to content is not straightforward and it is easier to pirate. What guarantee does Lbry offer that someone won't post a pirate copy of copyrighted content for free?

LBRY offers the same or better protections against infringement that HTTP does.

Re: Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

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Post by tromp »

tromp wrote: post #65
cyborgx7 wrote: post #7

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Seems like it. https://lbry.io/faq?category=mining

Missing the most important question: what proof-of-work algorithm does LBRY use?

Searching around for a while, I came across

https://github.com/lbryio/lbrycrd-gpu/blob/master/algorithm/...

which shows it to be Hashcash with some mishmash of existing hash functions (SHA256,SHA512,RIPEMD) cobbled together.

Re: Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

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Post by kefka »

pgl wrote: post #35

Would love a quick explanation of what this is, especially after clicking through to "Learn More"[0]. I don't want to watch a video, I don't want to read an essay, even the FAQ[1] (which wasn't exactly prominently linked to) doesn't seem to have a "What is LBRY?" anywhere. After a few minutes on this site, I still have no idea what this is. "Watch, read and play in a decentralized digital library controlled by the co…

Long and short of it:

Its an IPFS clone by a private entity, with a blockchain for a DNS like namespace. And its monetized, and seemingly badly.

Large chunks of the core code just aren't completes. No GUI. Low amount of users although spamming to tech sites is trying to change that.

Tl;Dr. Stay away. Stick with IPFS. Its on its way of being an IETF standard in my opinion.

Edit: I guess the 2 people from lbry.io found this comment. 2 immediate downvotes without comment. Would much prefer a dialogue if the above is factually incorrect... There seems to be a lot of people floundering in here trying to make heads or tails of this stuff.

Re: Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

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Post by dang »

CiPHPerCoder wrote: post #40

> Subsequent attempts to engage sincerely were also met with derision, so I'm not sure anything could have ever been done that wouldn't have been met similarly. Some people are like that, where if you respond to their snark, your response will be used against you to tarnish your reputation in the eyes of bystanders. It is important to never let them get the moral high ground. If someone says something like... * "Your…

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13930194 and marked it off-topic.

Re: Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

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Post by dang »

nananonymous wrote: post #68
CiPHPerCoder wrote: post #64

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> Like, here's a literal script for you to read from if you'd like us to stop attacking you in the future. Us? I'm talking about them, in a third person sense, not a first person sense. Them, in this case, is meant to refer to trollish individuals looking to cause trouble under the facade of caring about the plight of women, people of color, etc. but actually are just in it for their own emotions. The people who want…

Being forced to adopt others beliefs about diversity as their own is the definition of hegemony. You're taking part in making sure they have the "right" beliefs about business structure and hiring practices, and it's all the more insidious because you claim you're not.

Please don't do ideological flamewars on HN.

Re: Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

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Post by beaugunderson »

haldean wrote: post #53
kauffj wrote: post #28

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It was a crass and tone-deaf attempt on our part to signal awareness. Lesson learned. Subsequent attempts to engage sincerely were also met with derision, so I'm not sure anything could have ever been done that wouldn't have been met similarly.

Your attempt to respond sincerely was to say you don't have any women on staff because you don't have any executive assistants or office managers, which even a generous reader would call a sexist reason: https://mobile.twitter.com/LBRYio/status/844194654656626688

yeah... clearly they haven't learned :/

Re: Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

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Post by wyldfire »

tromp wrote: post #73
tromp wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Missing the most important question: what proof-of-work algorithm does LBRY use?

Searching around for a while, I came across https://github.com/lbryio/lbrycrd-gpu/blob/master/algorithm/... which shows it to be Hashcash with some mishmash of existing hash functions (SHA256,SHA512,RIPEMD) cobbled together.

Would be nice if the site featured a diagram showing how the functions and inputs are composed into the output hash. If this is an original function, what is it about LBRY that necessitates this new function?

Re: Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

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Post by SamBam »

pgl wrote: post #35

Would love a quick explanation of what this is, especially after clicking through to "Learn More"[0]. I don't want to watch a video, I don't want to read an essay, even the FAQ[1] (which wasn't exactly prominently linked to) doesn't seem to have a "What is LBRY?" anywhere. After a few minutes on this site, I still have no idea what this is. "Watch, read and play in a decentralized digital library controlled by the co…

> I don't want to watch a video

And that's doubly-so when the video is confusingly-produced.

It's fairly slow, and isn't very information-dense, and, though it sounds like it's scripted, its grammar doesn't actually make any sense. I transcribed a pierce below:

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"The bottom line is that LBRY, like HTTP or Bitcoin, it's a platform or protocol that, once unleashed into the world, no one will fully own or control how artists, authors, video and virtual reality producers how they'll use LBRY to discover and transmit, buy and sell content, that'll be up to them and the demanders of content, so watching this spontaneous world evolve, it's going to be very interesting, and I'm delighted to be a part of it."

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