Interesting proposal, weird yet smart. But gotta ask a question, this load on hive servers would be worth is spend and be able to upkeep itself right? I see that before ...The biggest problem Lightning has is the difficulty of actually receiving Lightning in a non-custodial way. You pretty much have to run your own server or rent a cloud server. There is no alternative.... You point out that any non custodial had to go big or go home, so hive sure helps clean that problem and the quircks of lightning sure are ... Desirable, to say the least.
But new podcasters would be able to upkeep their cost? For example, 3speak takes 11% of the share of any post you make, this app would take a % as well in order to keep it running right?
Last, how in the hell you manage to get that laptop to run this xD? That sure makes me wonder how my pc works hahahaha, its almost burning to death while i comment this, and yet is more "powerfull" than that laptop.
When I started on Podping I worried about load on Hive. Turns out Podping is only 0.3% of only Hive's custom_json traffic!
If this project is wildly successful it will take a very long time to make a dent in the kinds of traffic that Splinterlands pulls in today.
As far as the Lenovo P51: it's an amazing beast and this use is absolutely nothing compared to the games its been playing for the last few years!
There's actually a reasonable argument that I should be running the Lightning Node on my P51 and the Raspberry Pi should run the much easier Hive part.
0.3% Im ok with that, of course a lot hivers would try to push it to become podcasters if able, in fact there are a lot of live shows already on discord, to the point they could just tape those shows and make then podcast and noone would bat an eye xD
If really a beast of a machine, and the pi should run the easier part.
I fully support you now that i know this. I was worried that it would make a lot of begginer podcasters, and make the whole system go down, but 0.3% of increase is unconsecuential.