LPT vs THETA - The Future of Video, Storage, and LivestreamingBack in 2020, YouTube's #1 Creator, PewDiePie (Felix Kjellberg), announced that he would start streaming on DLive -- one of the first "working" crypto-based livestreaming service at the time. "Working" is in quotes since the partnership didn't last very long (YouTube eventually signed an exclusive rights deal with Kjellberg) and whether or not the platform is actually decentralized and censorship resistant is somewhat debatable.
DLive later moved its platform onto TRON (under Justin Sun) -- then was later acquired by BitTorrent and now uses BTT as its currency layer. There's a whole story behind that whole series of transactions too (including the rise and fall of DTube), but we'll stay focused on the crypto livestream/video market for now.
Right now the two big contenders in the crypto livestream/video markets are Livepeer (LPT) and Theta (THETA). Both projects claim to be the future of video -- which is decentralized, ubiquitous, and always available at any time. Livepeer is an open-source platform where anyone can build anything on top -- whereas Theta (founded by former YouTube co-founder, Steven Chen) is more of an enterprise-driven project with the backing of well-known, major companies out there. The differences in style and how they talk about themselves as a project is pretty stark, to say the least.
Right now the biggest bottleneck in the NFT market is storage and bandwidth capacity -- it's no secret that we live in a world where most people come to expect video as their primary source of content, but due to technical limitations (video, especially livestreaming, requires an exponentially higher amount of bandwidth/space) a lot of NFT projects out there avoided the issue by simply scaling down to simple images of apes, punks, and rocks. Most people working in content know, however, that video is where things need to eventually go, but in order for that to happen, there needs to be major upgrades done on the backend in order to accommodate the massive amounts of bandwidth that video systems require.
Web3 is only just getting started, in other words.
Filecoin (FILE) and Theta have a similar pattern since they both tend to target enterprise-level customers as their main focus, where as STORJ has a similar pattern to LPT and ETH since they're more open-sourced and decentralized. The patterns and where the money is coming from seem to be very clear, here.
Which will win out in the end? We don't know, yet. It's doubtful that the viewer really cares about where their content is coming from or how it's hosted -- the platform that entertains them the most is probably where they will go. In a way, this is just the eternal contest between small vs big production values -- maybe there may be room for both in the future. Which platform will create the most interesting content?
Pewdiepie
Fibonacci retracement say's no!When they were young they were the heart-throbs of the cyberpunk community but at 68, after several rounds of plastic surgery and botox, nanotechnologies and brain-computer interface updates the freakish Bogdanoff twins are now on the path to destroy crypto market without survivours. Why? Because after the crash there will come the new era of enlightenment and unprecedented technological progress lead by Bitcoin SV. Or HEX... there's always a chance that HEX will bring 39 000 000 % return in next 6 days.
– SATOSHI NAKAMOTO whitepaper, page 72
Told Ya So BTC Going UnderAs I said in my previous post, the falling volume with steady outbreak was just setting BTC up for failure. Here we are seeing it flush a little as expected, but there are only two options and for now I am holding a small short with a high leverage just in case it goes under as that small short could increase my portfolio by 20-30% if BTC decides to retest the 7k level again or even lower. Now for the options
Option 1(short): we go down to 9700 here testing the 200 day EMA, run up a little and come crashing through to retest lows.
Option 2(long): This downwards trend we are currently in will end soon and be the hand of the cup for the left shoulder sending us into the Bullish Market.
More TA on the way when we see what occurs.
NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE THIS IS STRICTLY TA AND MY OPINION ON WHAT SHOULD BE DONE WITH MY PORTFOLIO.
Gl Trading :)