Hosting and transmitting videos is expensive. I am of course aware of the "other stuff", but the "other stuff" only works because it's still based on small JSONs that one can cheaply host and clients cheaply download, often multiple times, and verify (discarding them if invalid). Whole videos are a different thing. Why would one even *want* to use Nostr for video sharing? It's obviously the wrong protocol.

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The event json would point the user to a file hash hosted in a blossom server. This could be structured in one of two ways: A) the blossom server requests a payment per megabyte of storage required paid for by the content creator B) users pay the blossom server hosting the video to download it. I personally prefer option B as it would give several servers an incentive to host copies of any blob. As for whether users would pay for this, which I assume is the next question you may ask, yes they would. Netflix has 300 million subscribers, and those are people paying monthly for essentially a more widespread version of my option B. They put up caching servers in many ISPs data centers and pay them, in order to make users download their content faster