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It's in the post - the author was able to put the taken-down video back up on lbry.tv, which is a cryptocurrency-based decentralized media platform.

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But he could have put it on Vimeo as well.

Perhaps he liked the monetization on libry more.

How does that even work? I think just the payment system on that media platform is crypto based. I've never heard of content-hosting on the block chain?

I assume something like IPFS pinning in exchange for crypto money

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