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Repository for storing code, configuration and information about the applications developed by videoDAC for Android.
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Reseach Topic: Integration of "streaming payments" systems into the pay-as-you-go player app #7

Open criticaltv opened 4 years ago

criticaltv commented 4 years ago

The pay-as-you-go player application involves

Initial implementations focussed on simply paying a fixed amount of ETH every e.g. 1 minute, and incurring associated gas fees for every transaction.

While this solution is functional, and demonstrates the principles, it will likely prove inefficient:

  1. as broadcasters lower their prices "per minute" to compete for viewer attention
  2. as viewers seek to lower their "up-front" commitment, e.g. to demand ability to pay "per second"
  3. as gas prices fluctuate.

So, this issue is to track the work to research solutions which would lower transactions costs, and lower barriers to entry, whilst at the same time, reducing

Some initial avenues to explore: