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 **Music Sharing Platform: P2PSound**

**Objective:**
To create a decentralized music-sharing platform where artists, producers, and beatmakers can share and monetize their tracks. By leveraging Breez, NOSTR, and Holepunch, the platform will prioritize peer-to-peer interactions, ensuring immediate payments to creators, rewarding listeners for sharing, and providing a frictionless experience for all users.

**Features:**

1. **Decentralized Music Storage & Sharing:**
   - Every client acts as a server. When a user listens to a track, it's stored locally, turning the user into a sharer on the P2P network powered by Holepunch.
   - This decentralized approach reduces server costs and ensures higher availability and resilience against censorship.

2. **Dynamic Content Streaming & Monetization:**
   - Utilize the concept of "streaming sats for streaming content."
   - Listeners can access tracks seamlessly, akin to a traditional music player, but with the added benefit of earning a small portion of streaming revenue for sharing the track on the P2P network using Lightning Prisms.

3. **Types of Music Distribution:**
   - **Traditional Tracks:** These are finished songs meant for wide listening. They remain available even after purchase.
   - **Beats for Sale:** These are exclusive tracks meant to be purchased and used by other artists. Once bought, they disappear from public access, ensuring exclusivity.

4. **Revenue Splits & Collaborations:**
   - Artists can set up automatic revenue splits for collaborations or when sampling another artist's work on the platform.
   - This is facilitated by NOSTR and Lightning Prisms, ensuring transparent and immediate payment distributions.

5. **Lightning Payments Integration using Breez SDK:**
   - Handle Lightning payments through Breez, ensuring a non-custodial platform where users and creators maintain control of their funds.
   - No need for KYC/AML, ensuring a faster and more user-friendly payment experience.

6. **Community Interaction & Feedback:**
   - Integrate NOSTR for community interactions, allowing users to comment, share tracks, and foster a community of music enthusiasts.
   - Enable social micropayments, allowing users to tip or donate to their favorite artists.

7. **Global Accessibility & User Experience:**
   - Ensure global access without borders or restrictions, leveraging Holepunch's P2P model.
   - Prioritize a user-friendly interface, ensuring even those unfamiliar with P2P or Lightning can navigate and use the platform with ease.

**Development Steps:**

1. **Research & Planning:**
   - Understand the intricacies of Breez, NOSTR, and Holepunch and how they can be best utilized for the platform.
   - Plan the platform's decentralized architecture, ensuring scalability, security, and user privacy.

2. **Platform Development:**
   - Begin with frontend development, focusing on user interface and experience.
   - Integrate Breez SDK for Lightning payments and Holepunch for P2P functionalities.
   - Develop the backend, ensuring efficient track management, revenue splits, and P2P sharing mechanisms.

3. **Testing & Feedback:**
   - Conduct thorough testing of the platform, ensuring all features work seamlessly.
   - Gather feedback from a select group of artists and listeners, making necessary adjustments.

4. **Launch & Promotion:**
   - Launch P2PSound to the public.
   - Promote the platform within music communities, P2P enthusiasts, and through social media channels.

5. **Continuous Improvement:**
   - Gather feedback from the community.
   - Continuously iterate on the platform, adding new features and ensuring it meets the evolving needs of artists and listeners.

**Conclusion:**
P2PSound, powered by Breez, NOSTR, and Holepunch, aims to redefine the music-sharing experience. By emphasizing P2P interactions and rewarding both creators and listeners, the platform is set to revolutionize how we think about music distribution, monetization, and consumption in the digital age.

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