LBRY is a fully decentralized, open-source protocol facilitating the discovery, access, and (sometimes) purchase of data.
This repo is a reference implementation of the LBRY protocol and provides daemon that can interact with the network via a json-rpc interface.
The LBRY App is a decentralized content marketplace built on top of the LBRY protocol. We provide binaries for Windows, macOS, and Debian-based Linux.
| Windows | macOS | Linux |
|---|---|---|
| Download | Download | Download |
Our releases page also contains the latest release, pre-releases, and past builds.
See our quickstart guide at http://lbry.io/quickstart for details on how to install and use the lbrynet-daemon.
LBRY is a fully decentralized network for distributing data. It consists of peers uploading and downloading data from other peers, possibly in exchange for payments, and a distributed hash table, used by peers to discover other peers.
On LBRY, data is broken into chunks, and each chunk is content addressable, specified by its sha384 hash sum. This guarantees that peers can verify the correctness of each chunk without having to know anything about its contents, and can confidently re-transmit the chunk to other peers. Peers wishing to transmit chunks to other peers announce to the distributed hash table that they are associated with the sha384 hash sum in question. When a peer wants to download that chunk from the network, it asks the distributed hash table which peers are associated with that sha384 hash sum. The distributed hash table can also be used more generally. It simply stores IP addresses and ports which are associated with 384-bit numbers, and can be used by any type of application to help peers find each other. For example, an application for which clients don't know all of the necessary chunks may use some identifier, chosen by the application, to find clients which do know all of the necessary chunks.
To contribute, join us on Slack or contact jeremy@lbry.io. Pull requests are also welcome.
Please open an issue and describe your situation in detail. We will respond as soon as we can.
For private issues, contact jeremy@lbry.io.
See LICENSE