It is true, the back-end of these coins is meant to work as a segregated network. In such a system you cannot always be dependent on one entity for progress. I support the entity which happens to be PV, however I also encourage the development of talented individuals in the community as the goal of the system is to be completely self sustaining - not to wait every few days refreshing dev bitcointalk page to see when he was online last.
SO FAR Community Development Projects Include
Hulk's Tutorials on Setting up and IFPS Node and Uploading Movies
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@amintarang/purevidz-setting-up-an-ipfs-hash-to-upload-movies
Sindren Has Creating a Public IPFS node and has also figured out how to encode subtitles.
The link is here: http://94.177.201.231/ (it may get taken down later so i am adding a screenshot)
https://i.imgur.com/IhIrLU6.png
>> subtitles <<
https://i.imgur.com/A5qRaIC.png
Sindren has also encoded a media player in the wallet
https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FKICJhcH.png&t=573&c=KFqLfX0HHjqUUA
Sindren says that
"He is able to work on an IPFS web server which will allow access to content without the need of websites or proxies, directly from an IPFS node - and that there will be no central point of control - thus no suspension b Govts for DCMA"
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https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.17812608
Over 30k in bounties have been given so far for these initiatives. We have contributors from all over the world, come join the Slack.
https://purevidznet.herokuapp.com/
We are very excited about the speed at which such a development has taken place. The creation of the subtitles function was expected to take at least a week from PV side. PV is a very talented dev and probably is an expert at certain languages etc. however this example proves how intelligence and creativity can be crowdsourced.
I am willing to fund a simple smart contract system. Asphyxia has publicly announced that he has already developed a vidz burn address. I think that a system involving basic game theory and burn address could be easily developed. This could further enhance bounty system and community developer bounty contract systems.
David Zimbeck founder of one of the first smart contract systems and ex Blackcoin and current BitBay developer will be in the slack tomorrow to brainstorm on simple methods of creating a VIDZ smart contract system.[/u]