Introducing: A brand new Livepeer.org
In the three and a half years since Livepeer first embarked on its mission to build the world’s open video infrastructure, the project has grown into a global network represented by thousands of tokenholders, video miners, and open source contributors.
Today, video developers are beginning to seize on the opportunity to build applications on this network, one with enough GPU capacity to encode all the realtime video streaming through Twitch, Facebook, and YouTube combined, reliably, at scale and at an order of magnitude cheaper price compared to traditional centralized cloud providers.
As Livepeer continues to grow, in order to better serve its ecosystem of participants and users, we’re excited to announce a redesign of the Livepeer.org website.
Over the past couple of months, we’ve worked closely with the brilliant team at Basement Studio to create the best possible portal to Livepeer. Whether you’re interested in transcoding video as a video miner, securing the network and voting on proposals as a tokenholder, getting involved as an open source contributor, or building the next big video application as a developer, Livepeer.org aims to provide the resources and information to participate in and use the network effectively.
Anyone is welcome to contribute to the site as today marks the beginning of a relaunch, not the end. We expect it to grow and iterate in public as it’s improved by contributors across the ecosystem. If you’re interested in contributing to Livepeer.org, you’re welcome and encouraged to help improve it on GitHub by opening an issue or pull request.
For those of us participating in the Livepeer network, the belief is that it will enable video applications to be created that were never before possible under traditional, centralized cost structures, unlocking communications, economic opportunity, and entertainment for society going forward. Through the power of open source software, the harnessing of underutilized resources like compute and bandwidth, and the use of cryptoeconomic incentives for bootstrapping and participation, for developers this opportunity exists today. By providing newcomers a better pathway to learn about, participate in, or use Livepeer, we hope to help them capture it.
