Dlive, a Controversial Blockchain-based Live Streaming Platform
Dlive (Dlive.tv or Dlive TV) is one of the largest blockchain-based live streaming platforms. Dlive is powered by the Lino blockchain, on which you can build your own value-sharing content-based economy and promises that "content creators, viewers, and all other contributors are fully and fairly incentivized".
Problem with Traditional platform
(1) Higher monetization bars.
(2) Hidden algorithms on the content recommendation.
(3) Fewer rewards. The success and revenue of traditional video giants like Youtube are essentially built upon the content contribution of users and views of users. Although Youtube rewards content contributors with money, it is far away from what they contributed. And for the viewers, there are no rewards at all.
Dlive as an alternative?
Dlive is born out of frustration and dissatisfaction at traditional live streaming platforms like Youtube.
DLive is "changing the whole game by putting platform ownership in the hands of the users through blockchain technology. The users of DLive are the ones that are rewarded for their contributions as the platform grows. It doesn’t matter if you are a content creator or viewer, your contributions are valued." Dlive doesn’t take any of your earnings. you would get 75% of your earns directly into your wallet and the left (25%) goes to a token pool for rewarding BTT Stakers.
At Dlive, the contributions of viewers are counted by reward with for viewer's behaviors like watching, chatting, sharing content, etc.
At Dlive, Users have more control over Youtube, as "the third trusted party" that you have to rely on and has supremacy power of decision over your account. One famous example is PewDiePie. PewDiePie is one of the most popular YouTube Channel created by Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg on Apr 29, 2010. It has more than 25 billion views and 104M subscribers. Felix Kjellberg was in the list of Time magazine's "The 100 Most Influential People" of 2016. On Apr 09, 2019, Dlive announced "PewDiePie Forges First Exclusive Livestreaming Partnership with DLive", partly due to frustrations at Youtube where it has unconstraint power over Youtube Account. In 2016, PewDiePie said that YouTube has contacted him over deleting his account.
source: Youtube
Curently, Dlive Pewdiepie account has more than 800k followers.
Dlive Tokens
In Dlive system, it has three basic tokens: Lemon, BTT, and BTT Stake.
Lemon is an internal token used within DLive platform for donations and paid subscriptions.
BTT (BitTorrent Token) is the basic token in the BitTorrent system. BTT is a TRC-10 utility token. typical Dapps that are powered by BTT are BitTorrent Speed, BitTorrent File System, DLive, etc.
BTT Stake. Like you deposit your money into a bank and earn the interest, BTT Stake is the "interest" of BTT for BTT holders as the staking rewards.
Competitors
Besides traditional competitors like Youtube, Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/), there are other blockchain-based streaming or video platforms like Dtube.
Other information about Dlive
The CEO of Dlive is Charles Wayn who founded Dlive in 2017.
Official Website: https://dlive.tv/
Dlive has Dlive Apps for downloading.