Uploading Videos on Refine Medium

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3 min readApr 19, 2019

Social Media Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube have become lifelines of millions of people all over the world due to how easily they let users upload visual content on their platforms. These platforms and videos are a good source of income for people who are using it. But issues related to damaging, dangerous gaining the “Viral” status, lack of accountability on part of these platforms in case of mishaps, video tampering have landed these platforms into hot waters and have made earning money via visual content a challenging task.

Refine Medium, built on Blockchain technology, aims to protect everyone from such mishaps. We promote the system of decentralization where there’s no dependence on a particular provider, but rather, multiple computers store the entire database so that each computer has a copy of database. Changes to these database copies will only be made after gaining the consensus of the majority of the viewers in a truly democratic manner. Each digital copy can get individualized under the blockchain technology. The document source is known to all within the community and copy of the video will be made available to everyone so as to prevent tampering of videos.

IPFS protocol will be used by videos uploaded on Refine Medium. This protocol lets files exist in a distributed network without a central server or control. In case a video uploaded to platform gets changed, it gets a new hash (#), will be available as a new file. Two methods can be adopted concerning the old files: If viewer decides that his old video shouldn’t be available anymore, removal of all instances of hash to the older file will be done so that video becomes fully inaccessible. A versioning system can be enabled on discretion of the creator. Each viewer can track, analyse the full history of evolution of the file. Transperancy will be ensured to the viewer in this aspect. To prevent illegal data access, misuse by IPFS hosting nodes themselves, data stored will be fully encrypted. Irrespective of whether a video is meant for public viewing or just for some certain people (A feature available for a fee) encryption will be performed to restrict the usage only to Refine platform. While streaming videos on this platform, small manifest files will be downloaded initially. Hashes from these manifests will be used to download the required segments of video that viewer chooses to play. These segments will be then put together to create a continuous stream on the fly.

A very small amount of computing power will be used while viewing of the video content by a viewer on his device. It will be used to mine Etheream and to provide incentives to IPFS node owners for hosting content for a long period. This is a self sustaining model. As the users of our platform will go up, more computing power will be used in order to incentivize the IPFS node owners for storing more data.

Browser Cache will be used by our platform in order to store account information of the users. This will remove the need to relog after every session. This will also improve the user’s experience on platform by storing data like “previously watched videos”. This data won’t be backed up anywhere else owing to the decentralized nature of our platform. Clearing of browser cache will lead to complete removal of such information.

Refine Medium aims to provide an unparalleled infrastructure which will enable easy, fast, secure video uploads, to provide a hassle free, user friendly streaming experience.

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