I would like to see something more like bittorrent live: bittorrent but optimized for video streaming to a large audience. Unfortunately that became closed source.

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I’ll have to look into that. I guess the livestream platform could change but the idea is the same, just another layer above nostr. Huge opportunity here imo, it’s crazy to think about.

Isn’t hypercore/holepunch/keet not like this?

I highly doubt it

I’ve seen podcasts where the devs say it’s like BitTorrent but built for streaming. But I’m not a dev, so I don’t know how accurate that is.

That’s how they explain it, that it’s like BitTorrent but for streams

I think this can be done now.

BitTorrent was a central server with an IP table that palmed off peer 2 peer downloads.

WebRTC is a thing, could we add WebRTC as a live video layer over the top of the nostr topography?

Probably needs a dedicated video relay for the broadcaster to stream to and everyone else to subscribe to. Might be some lag but probably not much.

Hypercore seems way more efficient than bittorrent

for streaming video to a large audience? I doubt it.