When you think of watching a video or a platform to upload some, YouTube is the most commonplace, isn’t it? Blockchain has changed it, too, and introduced new platforms that now you can consider the proper YouTube alternatives.
When you think of watching a video or a platform to upload some, Youtube is the most commonplace, isn’t it?
Blockchain has changed it too and introduced new platforms that now you can consider as the proper YouTube alternatives unlike YouTube, these platforms proffer decentralized, open-sourced, and transparent places however, they don’t have YouTube popularity yet.
D.Tube
As it claims itself, D.Tube is the world’s first video platform based on crypto, using the STEEM blockchain and IPFS network.
D.Tube provides an avant-garde video service, where users can earn coins by watching, uploading, sharing, and commenting on videos using STEEM blockchain.
It also is censorship-resistant, technically, and doesn’t have a special content guideline, while the censorship ax is in the users’ hands by voting for or against the content, using its coin.
D.Tube is the same as YouTube in appearance, and it is user-friendly while it is well-organized.
LBRY
Although the company doesn’t consider itself a video streaming service, it places a special focus on videos while providing other types of digital content.
Its video-watching platform, named Odysee, is easy to use as users can easily browse, share, upload, purchase, download, and host any type of content.
Users must rely on LBRY tokens to buy digital content, but except for that the tokens can be exchanged with other cryptocurrencies.
BitChute
The company’s goal is to fight internet censorship. to achieve that the platform is decentralized and community-funded but still deploys some rules.
BitChute seems like other video streaming platforms with different broad categories and some special features to increase content visibility.
Although it is still a toddler, it has obtained an acceptable number of users with interesting videos that are not available anywhere else and an immutable host to far-rights.
You would find its appearance neither complex nor attractive but BitChute has made the main job that is uploading and watching videos, a seamless experience.
Dlive
A group of video creators and audiences found the platform to put an end to unfair promotion, rising fees, and censorship, and just 2 years later in 2019 BitTorrent bought it.
Dlive was based on the Lino blockchain and then moved to Tron to incentivize both content creators and viewers using crypto. It offers three coins to the users including Lemon, BTT, and BTT Stake, while Lemon is the internal token for donations and subscriptions, Lino is the basic token.
It is different in appearance with its special yellow color, yet easy to use various features like live streams, chat service, highlights, and more.
Theta
Knowing itself as the decentralized next-generation video service, Theta is a peer-to-peer platform, that provides high-quality video streaming.
Theta also is a blockchain that solely has constructed end-to-end infrastructure for decentralized video streaming and delivery at this time.
Theta is an ERC-20compliant decentralized video delivery network. This means that Theta users can utilize the Ethereum ecosystem to simplify their crypto experience.
it is not difficult to earn tokens in Theta as both content creators and viewers earn THETA, the platform coin. the first for their cooperation and the latter for sharing their bandwidth.
Its user interface makes browsing easy for users to find movies, TV shows, e-sport, live streams, music, and other content .
Are there any other blockchain video platforms that YOU can suggest?
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