Flixxo - A decentralized video distribution platform

What Is Flixxo?

The rise of internet based streaming services (also called "OTT" - short for "Over the top", or "VOD" for Video on Demand) is fundamentally changing the way video is produced, sold, distributed and consumed.

Most streaming services will offer you, as a customer, the chance to select when and where to watch, and what to watch. This disconnection from the traditional linear programming attribute of what we refer (ed) to as "TV", is a fundamental shift.

Besides, more and more movies, TV shows and live events are being watched on
tablets, cellphones, computers and smart TV s, radically transforming the whole audiovisual industry.

But as technology moves forward, the production companies or content authors tend not to find a compelling revenue model for their work, and consumers find themselves committed to the content that they do not satisfy their demand for audiovisual content, unlicensed networks.

The gigantic costs associated with the infrastructure necessary for storing and distributing content, in addition to the endless lines of intermediaries, result into an unreasonable final price for consumers and an inefficient revenue model for the authors. Today, all the revenues are in the hands of the platforms.

"Seeders". As the content tends to be illegal, there can be a lot of seeders can spoil the network.

We know about p2p payments, we have developed decentralized ways of
settling value on a blockchain, we have learned how to set rules on that value.

By implementing smart contracts So we have the tools to connect
peer-to-peer payments to peer-to-peer content distribution We can merge
both technologies to make a social experience out of it.

This is the main idea behind Flixxo.

What we need in order to achieve our goal is to create a token that is inherent to the network we are using for distributing content. We call this token Flixx.

Through this token, users can earn incentives for seeding legal content and get a channel for connecting directly with media producers.

  It is a two-way system, in which producers pay users for
improving the network, and users can give authors a recognition for their work.

This token also prevents piracy and spam content, as authors have to time-block tokens in a smart contract (set as a warranty) in order to upload content. This contract will also handle a period of time, so that in the case of a dispute the unfair-uploader may lose those tokens.

Flixxo team

Adrian Garelik, a cinema producer and a scriptwriter ("To fool a thief", "Unsubscribe") involved in online content distribution since 1998 (dyzo.com, filmika.com, CinePop!), Started this project in late 2014 when he first heard of Bitcoin. In that moment, the DMK Labs (aka Rootstock), a company dedicated to implementing smart contract capabilities to Bitcoin.

In 2017, he left RSK and teamed up with Federico Abad, the UX / UI professional who created Popcorn Time, the most popular streaming
application ever developed (and recognized as one of the first mainstream DAPP). Popcorn Time relies on unlicensed content, which is the incentive for more than 100M downloads worldwide.

Federico has been working on the Bitcoin ecosystem (XAPO) and was looking for a way of shifting that incentive into an economic that relies on Blockchain technology.

Then Pablo Carbajo joined them, a cryptocurrencies expert who built-up Riecoin (listed as RIC on Poloniex - among other exchanges), a long standing and respected altcoin after Bitcoin.

The team has also engaged Javier D Ovidio, the CEO of Edrans, a company with more than 100 employees, with offices in Buenos Aires, Barcelona, London and Las Vegas, which focuses on big data and artificial intelligence.

Together they have the drive, knowledge and experience required to successfully carry out a project like this.

Details Information:

Website: http://flixxo.com/
Whitepaper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8SWSX-W63bQS0RjT3RUUEVfN1k/view?usp=sharing
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/flixxoOK/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/flixxo
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