DEMO - No, streaming heavy 4k media from an L1 isn't impossible!

Why is there this narrative that streaming media, movies, etc from an L1 is impossible? It's simply not true.

Now sure, storing multi-GB movies etc on your L1 and having to deal with the economics of state bloat, data rent etc is probably senseless under all use-cases, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.

I've heard that statement quite a few times over the years, most recently by SBF on a twitter spaces session. So I thought it was time I showed that it's not only possible, but can provide a decent experience too!

This morning I implemented a streaming protocol into my research network where I test out "blockchain stuff". This isn't any old blockchain, it's designed to be completely agnostic to the content it's processing with an extremely tight and lightweight state/execution-model. Not only that it is sharded, both at the state level and the data level.

The demo shows me uploading various media content to the L1, then streaming it back to my browser. The content ranges from MP3, 360p movie trailers & 4K films.

At the same time the network is also processing a bunch of other #dapps so it is under a moderate but constant load.

Network configuration is a geo-distributed, 64 replica, 8 shard-group instance. Each replica is an 8 core, 16GB, 1TB SSD specification.

Here is the twitch stream of the demo earlier this evening

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1280362879

Here is the same twitch stream (1.5GB of it) uploaded and hosted by the network I'm demonstrating ????

https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=radflix-twitch.mp4

And the various content from the demo

https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=matrix.mp4

https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=v4v.mp4

https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=atropa-e1.mp4

https://flexathon.net/radflix/index.html?name=atropa-e1-4k.mp4

Edit: The DAPP that is providing the constant load is a Twitter clone which is importing a real twitter feed. It's also importing media from tweets and users. You can get to that at

https://flexathon.net/twitter/index.html