LBRY: A Decentralized Digital Content Marketplace

TL;DR — The LBRY protocol spec — blockchain-based publishing and discovery, later the subject of an SEC action.

The protocol specification: “LBRY is a protocol for accessing and publishing digital content in a global, decentralized marketplace” — naming, discovery, payment and distribution without a platform in the middle.

Worth keeping for what happened next. The SEC sued LBRY Inc. over the token; the company lost and wound down in 2023. The protocol outlived the company.

A primary document in the argument about whether decentralised publishing can escape platform economics, read now with the ending known.

Where this came from

• Will Manidis’s “most underrated PDF” thread

28 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.