How I Made My First Stream with Zap.Stream

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On Sunday I made my first ever live stream on Zap Stream to hang out whilst doing the weekend ranking. It was much easier to setup than I thought once you are registered with Alby and have a Nostr account.

To create a stream was simple, you first need to copy the Server URL and Stream key into OBS and that will get your stream started.

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To stream and use the bandwidth, you need to have some sats and this costs around 600 sats per hour. I think you get some free sats for starting as there was already some sats there when I started. But you can easily load more sats by clicking top up and it requests directly to your Alby Wallet.

With enough sats there, you can then give some details about your stream.

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I gave a title and short description. I had a link to my recent post that I made which had a picture of the deck I was going to be playing in Gods Unchained which I used as my title picture. I then added some tags too. I finally set a goal that I was trying to reach for people to tip me in sats. Here I put 2k sats.

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As the stream got started I had 3 viewers, but this grew to 17 during the hour that I was streaming.

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I was surprised how quick and easy it was to start streaming and also all decentralised without signing up and creating an account. I also earned 2k in sats as tips.

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To join the stream when you go live, you can access it from the main site or going direct to my zap stream page here.

Also, you can see your previous streams there if you want to watch any re-runs.

This morning I also did my first Splinterlands stream that you can view here. This was quite early in the morning so didn't attract any viewers, but I will try to stream again tomorrow. I used the basic mode and this cost only 100 sats per hour which is ridiculously cheap and is a no-brainer to use if you want some cheap streaming options.

Overall, streaming with Zap.stream is nice and easy and it is good to use a decentralised solution and you can also earn some sats at the same time. The picture quality is really good and it was a seamless connection with OBS.

I was amazed at how fast and quick it started working and that even a layman like myself could get it going so quickly. There are lots of opportunities to stream your content and not worry about getting your account removed.

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Images taken from zap.stream.

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I used to do some streaming when dlive was still around. It was mostly Diablo 3 and stuff like that. I kind of miss doing that, but I never made much because I don't talk or anything like that. Probably pretty boring just watching a screen with no sound!

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Im not a huge talker either Bozz. Although when more people arrived I did do some chatting lol. It is good fun to play your games with others around though. Maybe you can stream playing D4 now? It looks pretty awesome to play.

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I'm not willing to pay what they are asking for D4. Maybe when the price finally drops down. $70 is just ridiculous for a game.

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Dlive vibe all over again just better. No Justin Sun and no lino lol

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Glad to see you streaming on ZapStream! Nostr has a huge viewer base but, at this time, only a small group of streamers which means, we need more creators and diverse content. We have the viewers, we need the content! It's also instant monetarisation, no road to affiliate grind, no minimum withdraw limits and I love that all sorts of nostr events can be natively embedded directly into chat.

It's a great time to be on ZapStream!

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Thanks man, it is much more fun than I had imagined! I can't imagine using these web2 streaming services again.

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Both my sons stream games but I don't understand what this is about.
I understand streaming as broadcasting some kind of music or radio program... obviously I'm out of date🤔

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There are a few people who do music shows on zap.stream plus other music shows now and again. But also many game streamers too.

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I don't know how it works at the moment, but I could imagine making an RSS feed of my 3spk videos as for a podcast and then directing feed/playlist to the stream... but the stream is always live, isn't it?

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You can play your videos and stream them if you wanted using OBS here. You can just setup the playlist and go!

I was playing some tunes in the background whilst playing :)

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Nice info 👍 Ended up watching some streams hehe

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Thanks, there are some good streams there sometimes.

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Hi, I am confused that what is this sat which we should have to start a live stream. I think it's same as Satoshi?

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Wow, it's great to see you exploring. The simplicity and decentralization of the platform make it quite appealing. Keep having fun and enjoying yourself.

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Thanks. It really is pretty amazing with the decentralisation and earning possiblities. I saw someone was zapped 1.67M sats today even.

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Wao! That's pretty much and a huge one for the person.. But it will just take time to get to that point.

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This is amazing, moving on to become a streamer as well! 😁

Good luck with your streams and hope that your viewership will increase along the way!

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Some of my friends do live streaming of games like free fire and pubg on Facebook. I totally don't understand that why they stream it, is it going to make them win that gaming round??.. lolz

I am first time knowing about zap.stream kind of thing, I sure will tell about it to my friends. It seems good decentralised platform.

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I thought that people streamed to hang out and earn some money?

Great to let them know about zap.stream.

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Ah, yes. I was searching about zap.stream and saw many people there.

I thought that people streamed to hang out and earn some money?

That is a nice thing. That people also earn through fun things.

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3 to 17 was a good increase Steve, and seems a good cheap way to stream too!

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Thanks Ed. Trying out new things, so far is pretty good!

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