Decentralized trustless video streaming using bitcoin payment channels
Streamium is a fully decentralized paid video streaming application. It leverages various prior technologies like bitcoin and WebRTC to achieve trustless pay-as-you-go video streaming with no intermediaries.
Content creators offer their streaming services in exchange for bitcoins using a payment channel with the client, streaming a series of cost-free transactions with no counterparty risk.
To run Streamium, just serve the root directory using any web server. For example:
cd paystream/
python -m "SimpleHTTPServer"
and then access it from any WebRTC-supporting browser:
Streamium is a static HTML web application and thus requires no servers to run.
AngularJS was used for client-side application code (and there's no server-side code!)
WebRTC is a browser to browser communications protocol used to share video streams between clients and service providers. It allows sharing of data and media without central servers. We use PeerJS to manage WebRTC connections.
Bitcoin is a p2p currency used for trustless payments. Bitcoin payment channels are used to establish a secure pay-as-you-go mechanism with no need for a third party.
Code released under the MIT license.
Copyright 2014 Streamium developers