====== LBRY ======

FIXME Really out of date

**LBRY** is a protocol (like HTTP, FTP) for transferring data using blockchain. A super useful advantage it has over a comparable P2P thing like torrents is that it allows for streaming video (and audio I assume?)

You can find my videos at

  * lbry:%%//%%@ryliejamesthomas

I will probably make another account for Game Making Tools too.

===== Setup =====
==== Arch Linux ====
[[https://github.com/lbryio/lbry/blob/master/INSTALL.md|The page has guides for setting up on OSX, Windows and Ubuntu]], so here're some notes on getting it going on Arch.

Dependancies:

^ Ubuntu package ^ Arch equivilant ^
| libgmp3-dev | libgmp |
| build-essential | base-devel (?) |
| python2.7 | python2 |
| python2.7-dev | python2 |
| python-pip | same |
| git | same |
| python-virtualenv | python-virtualenv |
| libssl-dev | openssl |
| libffi-dev | libffi |

The only other little tweak I had to do was make sure the virtual environment I setup was using Python 2 instead of 3 with

  virtualenv -p python2 lbry-venv

The lbry-app is availible in the AUR: [[aur>lbry-app-bin/|lbry-app-bin]]

===== Accounts =====
==== Deleting Items ====
You can't currently delete items via the GUI, but you can fairly easily do it via the command line.

First you need make sure the LBRY daemon is running. Easily done by just launchign the program.

Then you nned to get the ID of the item you want to remove

  lbrynet-cli claim_list_mine

Then use ''claim_abandon'' to remove the item and refund your LBC credits

  lbrynet-cli claim_abandon claim_id=[id]

  * [[yt>l1eqoE9xNsg|LBRY.io How to abandon a claim and get your credits back!]]

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