Just a heads up that we're aware the television section is not the most user friendly right now. We should have an improved Series -> Season -> Episode categorization option in the next day or so. Till then I would recommend searching for shows you're looking for as the browse is more about finding what's recently been added than finding specific shows.

Supply: 125,000,000 VIDZ


The minimum is in place as it is what we need to give the project the best chance at succeeding. Without reaching the minimum a refund would be triggered.

Anyone is welcome to submit torrents to the website. The only restrictions are that it must be an .mp4 using h264 video codec and aac audio codec. It also must have seeders using a webrtc compatible client.


I would assume most people wont bother submitting 4k material as the bandwidth requirements to view it would be much higher than the average internet connection can feed. It would be up to moderators to decide to approve or reject the submission quality but I could see there being some concern about the file being 'unusable' by many people.

It's also worth keeping in mind very few people are using 4k compatible monitors so the effect would largely be lost.


We have done research into and are planning to allow a fiat gateway yes. As per our whitepaper, we would be using any funds received from a fiat gateway towards the coin buyback program and burning the rest.

Glad to hear it's working for you now. Was the initial issue you had also with chrome? Do you have any addons? Sounds like some sort of compatibility or settings issue causing the connection to be blocked. The site should work with any modern browser and it has been tested with IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari. I cannot speak towards other lesser used browsers but if they support html5 and webrtc it should function properly.


There is a global bounty of 1kk VIDZ tokens currently which will be open until the full 1.0 version of the site launches (refer to development timeline). The amount of tokens you get per item submitted to the site depends on how many items are submitted total. For example if 1000 movies and 10,000 episodes of TV are submitted, that's 20,000 'points' (movies are 10 points, episodes are 1 point) so each point would be worth 50 vidz and you would be credited based on all of the content you submitted during that period.

Hey, just wanted to answer some questions before everyone is busy with NYE celebrations


If it doesn't hit 50, we'll be doing a refund. We intend to stick to the promises we've made.


This is entirely dependant on the browser you're using. As long as the browser your using supports web torrents, you'll be good to go as the site is responsive.


Correct, Las Vegas is PST according to Google so it'll end 4pm for you on the 8th.


The network launch and coin distribution should start within 48h of the crowdfund ending. As for exchange listings, we will be looking to pay for a Yobit listing. C-Cex may come some time shortly after but has not been decided or finalized yet. Remember that C-Cex has a vote listing system as well, so even if we don't directly pay for a listing on C-Cex you can vote for us!


To our knowledge, we're the first site to have this sort of infrastructure that rewards community contribution and building for Torrents. We'll be on the verge of writing history as we bring torrents back into the modern times

Себастьян только один брелок для ключа. Мы также сотрудника с форума по имени мазков, который держит другой ключ.

Bump. Only 10 days left.

We hope those who celebrated had a good safe Christmas and others enjoyed the holiday.

Please be aware there is some scheduled downtime in the near future as we continue to make some behind the scene changes. This should be a fairly seamless process and we shouldn't be down too long, so please if you incur downtime within the next 48h using the site don't post about it.

We hope everyone has a safe and happy new year.

Will be adding this to the OP shortly but to give precise times, the crowdfund is ending on January 9th 12:00am GMT in Europe. So for those on the east coast of North America it's 7:00pm EST and those on the west coast it's 4:00pm PST.
 

While this still needs to be discussed with our escrows, our plan is have them each hold 1/3 and us hold 1/3. This way, whenever we need additional funds we can request it from the escrow and it can be easily auditable as well as what the reason we're requesting or spending funds are.

Our address(es) as well as the escrows address(es) will be publicly known so people can keep track of.

This is a long term project and we've gone into extensive detail about our planned finances in our 2nd post of our thread. With any business venture, crypto or not those who invest in it are taking a risk but so are the founders of the organization as they spend time and dedication on the project. There's no intention of "cashing out ASAP" so I'm not sure where you've gotten this idea from, but I hope I've rectified your views.

Answering some more questions I missed from earlier...

Yes, that is possible and is something we will look to discuss with them after the end of our crowdfunding process.

Sebastian is guranteed a minimum of 1 BTC as per his terms. The 2M tokens will be distributed proportionally as we complete goals and receive the BTC raised.

There are dozens of torrent and streaming sites that have tens of millions of monthly users. We feel our product is simple enough to use and powerful enough that it will gain great popularity in the same way these do and exceed these expectations as we will provide higher quality infrastructure with less ambiguity. An example of this is referred to in the whitepaper where often a user on these ad ridden websites must find the real play button.

Briefly summarizing, our site will be disributed across multiple servers and employ domain routing to ensure uptime, content is used owned and decentralized through the use of the torrents and we'll be taking a look into blockchain based solutions for storing magnet links. Please see our whitepaper for more information


Can you explain what you mean? I don't quite follow.

The rate is variable to ensure that buybacks adjust to coin demand and the growth of the site. As the site becomes more popular and the fiat earnings grow, our buybacks become larger causing our stake in the companies earnings to grow, burning large amounts of coin to remove them from circulation and has the effect of re-distributing coins to those who are contributing to the sites growth. If this did not have a limitation then the site would not be able to sustain its growth and the coin would be artificially inflated to a unstable price.

If we hold say 25% of the coins through dev and holding funds then we get 25% of what the site earns, 15% goes to site maintenance and growth and the other 60% of fiat earnings are used for buybacks. If the buybacks grew to a very high level (lets say the site exploded with users and was earning a very large amount of fiat currency), the system adjusts to that situation to avoid a situation where we buy up the majority of the coins. The purpose of this is to make sure we are heavily investing in the price of the coin and its uses but also making sure that the fiat earnings of the site are directly benefiting investors.

Thanks for listing us! We have not reached our goal quite yet but are moving slowly towards it as we're currently at 11.7 BTC raised

Only SebastianJu has a minimum guarantee of 1 BTC. As for the 2M VIDZ, they are being released to the escrows proportionally as we receive the BTC. For example, when we receive 10% of the BTC they will receive 200k VIDZ which is 100k VIDZ each.

Happy to clarify.

The personal fund is coins purchased through the buyback program which are not either burned or re-distributed through the dev fund. The total amount of coins held between the personal fund and the developer fund is used to determine the percentage of fiat earnings from the site which are used to fund coin buybacks. The dev fund automatically triggers global bounties and advertisement campaigns where the personal fund should be viewed as our ownership stake in the company. As it rises, we claim a larger portion of the fiat earnings of the site. All wallet addresses will be made public and each month we will list a report proving our stake and our buybacks were done in accordance with our guidelines. We are also looking to bring in a trusted escrow style service to review our books monthly to offer secondary reassurances that we are doing what we say we will.


Short version is: The more fiat the site earns, the larger our coin buybacks. These coins get split into burn address, dev fund and personal fund. As the personal fund grows, the percentage of fiat earnings which goes to the developer rather than the buyback program is adjusted organically.

Hello Pure Vidz community!

Today we've updated our whitepaper detailing a lot more information about our plans and how certain things will work.
http://purevidz.net/info/intro

Specifically, we've updated our Finances section heavily going into more detail. This is a topic that investors would most be concerned about so we tried to give as much information as possible. This section details how our infrastructure will produce revenue and how VIDZ holders will directly benefit from it. If there are any questions about the information in this section, please ask for clarification!

A new section that'd been added is Bounties Ecosystem which describes the VIDZ bounty ecosystem of our site. Quoting directly from it,

Since the topic of how Pure Vidz compares to traditional streaming index websites such as VidTo.me, VidUp, etc. has come up quite frequently in the thread, we've gone into more detail about this in our section Pure Vidz vs Traditional Streaming.

Along with our updated whitepaper, over the last few days we've been rolling out several small updates, tweaks and fixes to the site as we work towards our official release. Listing the differences since demo 2,

- Template has been altered slightly to better fit our new content
- Support for Television shows in terms of submitting torrents
- The ability to navigate through "Next/Previous" episodes with full season torrents
- Genre tagging
- Advanced search query: Ability to search by genre/title (more criteria will be added later)
- Recommended content system: Streamlined recommendations based on similarities (the algorithm being used currently is very basic focusing only on genre, as we move towards the official release this will be altered to factor in things such as movie rating so that a 'G' rated movie doesn't recommend an 'R', user tag, recurring actors, etc.)
- Pagination to easily navigate through all pages of content

We are going to continue working on behind the scene infrastructure (such as the algorithm changes to recommended content) as we move into the new year and get closer to the end of our sale and our initial official release. There will continue to be subtle changes done to the site over this duration as seen from demo 2 to the point we're at now, however no drastic changes such as the jump from demo 1 to demo 2 will occur until we're ready for the official release.

We thank those who've already supported us by contributing towards the crowdfund, followed us on Twitter, participated in our Twitter bounty and shared us with their peers. Please continue to enjoy the content on our site as we work towards the official release of Pure Vidz.

Happy holidays, and a Merry Christmas in advance to those who celebrate!

As you may have noticed if you have visited our site over the course of the last few days we've been undergoing a few changes and silently rolling them out. Tomorrow, we will be posting a formal update about the changes we've made as well as doing a major update revising some sections of our whitepaper and adding some new ones.

Thanks.

Adult films are not covered by the initial site. We will be more than happy to roll out a xxx.purevidz.net service if there is enough interest but the site itself is intended to be easy to use and accessible to people of all ages.

You could of course still add something to the site to link to a friend but it would not be visible without manually linking to the content.

You bring up a good point. We've discussed a number of times through the thread how we will handle user data and protect their privacy. I think this is something we definitely need to include in the whitepaper for clarity purposes but here's the rundown of the basics.

1: What does the website track.

We do not record any IP addresses, browser information or even what accounts are watching what items. The exception to this obviously is if you are adding items to your playlist/watch later/alert list but passively using the site generates no logs on our side.

2: How is user data anonymized.

Our website salts + hashes both your username and password. We have no way to view your email address or password and the mailing list data is not associated with your account in any way. If in the extreme circumstance of the website's database being compromised, there would be nothing linking your email address (mailing list) to your account (what you've uploaded to the site).

3: How users should protect themselves.

Depending on your country of origin, using torrents may or may not have consequences. Our website will contain a disclaimer reminding users to be aware of their local laws and to take measures to protect themselves. We STRONGLY recommend that if you live in an area where torrenting has legal consequences that you use a VPN. As part of the site's monetization model we will prominently feature VPN advertisements and guides on what they are, how to use them and why you should.

4: Centralized website.

This is both true and false. During the initial launch phase the database and web host are being routed through a number of servers in various countries. If a host were ever seized, taken offline or otherwise interfered with, there would be full backups ready for the site to fall back on. During this phase we will be using a number of methods to re-route the portal to the correct host. This is a similar approach to what sites like thepiratebay use and even with all the pressure, they've suffered virtually 0 downtime in the past few years. Our goal is to push a step further by indexing all of our sites content (NOT user data) through decentralized methods. A simplified way to do this is to record the hash of submitted torrents using OP_RETURN so that in the case of catastrophic failure the site can easily restore its data within minutes/hours.



Thepiratebay and similar sites do not offer in browser streaming, they are filled with ads (many of which are malicious), they are not user friendly and they require 3rd party software. Those are the things our project aims to address and how our service will out perform them.

The entire purpose of the PureVidz project is to improve the torrenting experience to make it every bit as user friendly and streamlined as using a streaming service like youtube or netflix is.

We've launched one of the features early for testing. The major changes will be tomorrow but for now we're starting to integrate our 'recommended items' feed. It is worth noting that the algorithm is not yet finalized and will improve greatly in the 1.0 launch. Here's what will be added to help improve it.

#1: User Tags

Right now we are tagging based on genre alone. This is great for rough estimates (You're watching an action movie? Here's some other action movies!) but doesn't let us capture the 'feel' of the film. User tags will allow registered users to add or create tags for content which will influence how it is suggested to other users.

#2: Film Ratings

We noticed in our first tests that there was some... interesting suggestions happening with items that are technically similar but very different due to their rating level. The prime example being Sausage Party being recommended to everyone watching animated comedy movies. Sure they have a lot of similar tags but suggesting a hard R rated movie to someone watching family fluff films is not a good plan. Film ratings are part of our upcoming update regardless so once that's in place it will help cut out some of these edge cases.

#3: Popularity

In the next update we will also begin to track which films are the most popular both in regards to ratings on various film sites like IMDB and how often the file is viewed on our site. This will help us create new categories like "undiscovered gems" for highly rated films that are very rarely watched on our site, or to simply show you what is popular right now.

-Advanced search: Tv/Movie, filter by Genre, etc
-Suggested films: Recently added by genre
-Television support: Series, Season, Episode
-Improved site navigation: TV/Movies/Other categories

Our goal is for tomorrow but it will be launched no later than Sunday.

We're making a number of changes to the database in order to support many of the new features being added this weekend. This has resulted in some of the existing content being unviewable. This issue will be resolved within the next few hours.

Thank you for your patience and a huge shoutout to everyone who has been contributing content to the site already.