RE: I really think that the 3Speak Network will be the first-ever of its k ...
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SPK network seemed unnecesarily complex project when I looked at it at the first time. Why would they not use other existing networks for storage and transcoding? Then I thought about the economy for a moment and realised that it would be too expensive and too risky to depend on other projects. It is not an easy task to make all the pieces work together and will require a huge community of volunteers or one giant funding entity to maintain all the infrastructure. I am aware I underestimate the amount of development work the project takes. For me it looks like forking a few existing projects lightly to make them use SPK network tokens.
If centralized entities start building walls, they will lose the community developers and most of the alternative user interfaces will die. Though not really an example about open source I think Twitter lost a lot of community innovation when they put their streaming APIs and XAuth behind walls. In blockchains I see open community forks would outlive the more developed walled commercial networks because there is very little incentive to build more value on something you are not a part of
Every role that takes a part in the greater idea of a decentralized video delivery network needs to make sense by itself. Therefore it's just the right implementation to give them their own token-value systems. Or at least from the perspective of a software architect that makes a lot of sense, will those be able to survive by themselves in a practical environment, we'll have to wait and see. Big data is not easy to handle and distributed big data with performance requirements on top of everything else is even harder. It'll take a lot of action to run system notes, I don't believe in a "click-and-run out-of-the-box" solution at all.
Linux became the world's most used server platform for having this free and open-source system combined with heavy-handed and extremely expensive and professional service providers on top of that. I don't really see why this part of history should not repeat itself in exactly the same way and honestly, I wouldn't dislike it as well.