Thanks for the reply, interesting points! I think to scale past the current 1-to-1 architecture I'd need to set up a video streaming server. The payments can still remain something peers exchange directly.

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The pre-split approach is great, having exact denomination chunks ready so each tick is just grab and send keeps the latency predictable. The mint trust during the session seems fine for something like video where the worst case is you lose a few seconds of stream. I'm curious if you've thought about what happens when you scale past 1 viewer though, does the payment loop stay simple or does it need some kind of relay or something else?