This makes absolutely no sense. How can you claim that Transcodium has unlimited processing power when the reality is that the processing power is limited by the number of "miners?" What happens if the service gets extremely popular and there is more demand than supply? What incentive do miners have to use their processing power for this instead of mining other coins? How is this decentralized when you have to upload your file to an unknown masternode? Amazon charges 3 cents per minute for HD transcoding. That right there will limit the value of this token. Another big oversight is support. What if there is an issue with the transcoding? Who gives the refund? I'm not saying that this is a bad idea, but this is a perfect example of something that does not belong on the blockchain. It would be much better suited for a centralized service that pays users for computing power. No one who needs massive transcoding power is going to go through the hassle to buy the highly volatile bitcoin so that they can convert it to an altcoin to get some decentralized service that may or may not work.
We really appreciate your concerns, okay , I will take all the questions and answer them one by one
1. Question: How can you claim that Transcodium has unlimited processing power when the reality is that the processing power is limited by the number of "miners?"
Answer: we used the term unlimited processing power because comparing the number of people who would want to earn from their cell phones, idle computers and even gaming console to the number of servers you will have to buy and maintain is huge. if you have really read our whitepaper very well, the files to be processed will be sent in very little chunks so as to not overwork the worker devices especially smartphones.This way device owners wont even notice the battery and memory consumption. Alot of people would opt in for this to make money from their devices.
2. Question: What happens if the service gets extremely popular and there is more demand than supply?
Answer: If the service gets more popular then it means customers are getting value for the money paid and the service rendered to them is of high quality.
3. Question: What incentive do miners have to use their processing power for this instead of mining other coins?
Answer: Again if you read the white paper very well, the minner or workers will earn the TNS tokens after every successful transcoding process. Also customers can only pay with the TNS tokens on the network to enable the Token get value because there will be an active trading and this causes demand and supply of the token. Also with transcodium there is no need to disturb your self with hash rate difficulty and others because its not needed, if you earn $100/ a day, you will earn that forever with the same processing power you provide
4. Question: How is this decentralized when you have to upload your file to an unknown masternode?
Again if you have read the whitepaper and the business model very well, The masternode will be managed only by the transcodium team due to the privacy involved, again customers can provide their own master node if they think it will be okay with them.
5. Question: Amazon charges 3 cents per minute for HD transcoding.
Answer: True, and that is very cheap, but ask your self, is it fast enough to handle very large scale processing? also , also you will need alot of technicalities to be able to setup an amazon transcoder. let me give you a simple example: before whatsapp was born there were alot of messaging app, but ask your self, why is it the number one choice of the average Joe, because of it simplicity, if you have tried our prototype you will know how simple is it to edit and transcode a file.
Also amazon dont provide editing tools, its strictly transcoding, but we provide visual editing tools and many more. Try the prototype.
6. What if there is an issue with the transcoding? Who gives the refund?
Do you really know how the blockchain, transcoding and the smart contract works? if no, then let me explain, after every successful transcoding, the integrity of the process file is tested before payment is done, also if you have read the whitepaper very well, using the proof of stake, users cannot mine with an empty balance. Also There is a company called Transcodium Ltd. to give support and help to its customers, it is a registered company and not just a group of people trying to create something up.
7. Question: It would be much better suited for a centralized service that pays users for computing power. No one who needs massive transcoding power is going to go through the hassle to buy the highly volatile bitcoin so that they can convert it to an altcoin to get some decentralized service that may or may not work.
Answer : If Storj , Golem , Siacoin and others have been able to decentralize most aspect of the cloud , then how is this different, dont people buy bitcoin and convert to altcoin to pay them??
I love your questions, it helps us enlighten other members about what we are trying to achieve, I hope you are okay...