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Do you think you could successfully merge VTR with a joystream fork? If the VTR devs fail?
I'm not interested in any of that. The VTR devs look to have a far superior implementation vs. Joystream, if they are going to run a straight implementation of a BitTorrent client.
1000 times better.
Joystream is going to fail badly unless they introduce some payment hubs to keep users from spamming the Bitcoin blockchain with micro-transactions. At the current cost of BTC fees, Joystream is dead in the water. You would need to be buying an mp3 file for about $5 just in fees.
vTorrent is the only game in town.
I imagine that's what the VTR token will be for? To pass fees around without touching the VTR blockchain, then it gets periodically converted back into VTR. Similar to ETH and Gas I guess. Or maybe I'm wrong.
Also, BTC transaction speeds are atrocious and why you'd want to build anything on top of that blockchain is a mystery to me. I've been waiting 5 1/2 hours for the first confirmation of a transaction sent with 25c fee.