streamTXC is a thin layer on top of two things that were already permanent: IPFS for the file, and TXC for the receipt. No accounts. No hidden re-encodes. No silent takedowns. Every video has a public address, and every payment has a public transaction.
The CID is the file. Change a single byte and the address changes too. There's no way to silently swap content under the same URL.
Every hosting payment, comment, and boost is an OP_RETURN on the TXC chain. Public, permanent, auditable by anyone with a block explorer.
No account. No algorithm deciding who sees what. No copyright bot deleting your archive. You pay the network for storage and the network keeps it.
$0.001 per MB per month, billed in TXC at the live spot price. Views earn the creator credits — popular videos help pay for their own pinning.
Browser sends the file straight to IPFS via a presigned URL.
IPFS hashes the bytes and gives you a content address — the filename is the fingerprint.
A per-video TXC deposit address is generated. Pay the quote within 24h or the file is unpinned.
We broadcast a TXCV1M OP_RETURN tying your CID to the payment. Now it's on-chain.
Anyone can watch, embed, or download by CID. No login. No region lock.
Pinata pins it on IPFS. Anyone else can pin the same CID too — that's the point. If we disappeared tomorrow, the CID still works on any IPFS gateway someone else is running.
After the prepaid window plus a 24h grace period, we unpin. The CID still resolves anywhere else it's pinned, and the on-chain record of it ever existing never goes away.
We can unpin from our infrastructure, but no one can un-publish a CID from IPFS as a whole, and the on-chain stamp is permanent. Treat upload as a permanent decision.
More than a normal platform. We can refuse to serve content through our gateway, but we can't rewrite history, change the CID, or stop someone else from re-pinning and streaming the file.
Because the chain is the receipt. Stripe can reverse a charge; an OP_RETURN can't. TXC is fast, cheap, and lets us anchor every action — uploads, comments, boosts — into a public ledger.