- This section assumes "blockchain" already means something to you. If you're totally new, the key problem solved by blockhain is the ability for distributed, disparate entities to all agree on a rivalrous state of affairs (such as account balances or metadata associated with a URL). + This section assumes "blockchain" already means something to you. If you're totally new, the key problem solved by blockhain is the ability for distributed, disparate entities to all agree on a state of affairs. For a more comprehensive introduction to blockchain, try starting [here].
- The LBRY blockchain is a public and uses proof-of-work consensus. It is the foundation of the protocol stack. + The LBRY blockchain is a public, proof-of-work of work blockchain consensus. It is the foundation of the protocol stack.
The most salient feature of the LBRY blockchain is the association of a normalized character string with up to 8KB of metadata.
- This string of characters forms a LBRY URL, e.g.
+ This string of characters forms a LBRY URL, e.g. lbry://hellolbry.
- The LBRY blockchain contains two parallel [[Merkle Tree]]s, one for transactions (ala Bitcoin) and one for storing LBRY URLs and metadata. + The LBRY blockchain contains two parallel [[Merkle Tree]]s, one for transactions (ala Bitcoin) and one for storing LBRY URLs and metadata. This allows LBRY URLs to be trustfully resolved even without a full copy of the blockchain.
Conventionally, this metadata contains information about the content, such as the title and creator, the price (if any), and a unique signature allowing the actual content to be fetched from the data network, the next level in the LBRY stack. @@ -88,7 +87,10 @@
+ While blockchain is the innovation that makes LBRY possible, the Data Network is the layer that actually + makes the blockchain useful. +
++ The primary component for this level is lbry, a daemon that: +
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- -+ Unless choosing to re-implement aspects of the LBRY protocol by hand, most applications that interact with the LBRY network will bundle lbry. +
+ Applications are the final level of the LBRY stack, and they represent how most people will actually use LBRY. +
++ LBRY Inc. currently releases and maintains three applications: +
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-+ However, the very idea of LBRY is that there's not just one way to interact with the network. + Anyone can build on top of LBRY in a permissionless manner. + These applications exist to show what's possible and to give new users a user-friendly way to use LBRY. +