When it comes to forming an opinion bout a project i look at the fundamentals and the math behind it. You should never get emotional with these things. I made this poll asking the community about the PewDiePie - DLive collaboration. Now it's time to dive into the numbers and see how well the whole thing is going. But first few facts:

• LINO blockchain itself has solid, powerful tech (although it's not battle tested)
• DLive has no decentralized infrastructure.
• Only the token is decentralized.
• They had 20 million USD VC funding
• DLive is huge in Turkey ans is available in English and Turkish
• The founding team is mostly Chinese
• Currenly there are 30 team members in LINO Network
• Team’s average age is 25.
• They have a 3,000 square-feet office in Cupertino, California (where office leases are at $35 - $70/Sqft/Year)

Google Trends: Last 7 Days

Google Trends: Last 12 Months

PewDiePie basically gave tings a quick spike. Let's take a look at more long term buildups. Twitter actually looks petty good:

But then you have to realize that this sort of services exist:

That's why I checked the Reddit page as promoted among the official links. Please note that the last post is 4 months old.

Generally Reddit is a place embraced by those who are into crypto/blockchain. But for LINO and DLive Reddit is just abandoned and they seem to be perusing numbers which is actually a cool metric that they can show off to their investors. Here are their investors:

Alphabet (Formerly Google) & Apple Are Getting Rich

Android App has 100,000+ downloads. Based on the amount of people who rated the iOS app, there is probably about 10K downloads there too. LINO value is fixed at least for now:

Let's look at token sale prices:

Basically the Appstores are getting a nice 30% cut of all the LINO sales. If you thought @blocktrades or Shapeshift wasn't getting you the best prices, think again. Buying LINO is basically like buying Gems on a mobile game.

Alexa Ranks

Actual Number of Viewers Online

Except for the PewDiePie announcement on the front page nobody has 100 viewers online. This isn't really much and PewDiePie might end up being more that twice as big s the rest of the streamers on DLive making it sort of a one man streaming platform at lest for some time. So PewDiePie did made the ight choice by accepting the collaboration with DLIve.

Token Economy and Sustainability - Is It Really Free..........

Most of the idiots consuming mainstream media will fall for the no fees/free gimmick. But we know better. There is always a catch. This time it is lack of transparency.

Locking up tokens gets you access to a pool of 9.9% of everything. This is a decent sum. The catch is that no information is given regrading the owned stake of LINO network. Even the bad ICOs tend to give a clear distribution of tokens. LINO merely admits having a stake and that's it.

Another Messy Part

DLive is built on a test version of the Lino Blockchain, a decentralized autonomous content ecosystem, which creates new LINO Points daily. The amount of points is designed to be between 0.2 – 9.9% annually and is calculated based on network consumption. These points are then distributed to infrastructure service providers, application developers, like DLive, validators and the users who contribute to the network. This mechanism is the reason why DLive can sustainably give back to the users of the platform and focus on building a rewarding and engaging community.
Source: https://community.dlive.tv/about/welcome-letter

It seems LINO is much like STEEM. But unlike the simple stake based upvotes the distribution seems to be based on "Engagement". Then there is going to be some DAPPs and Ads which means the reward are going to be split round. The biggest problem is that LINO Network look like an attempt to turn a DAPP into platform. LINO is built for a streaming platform and with the exception of TikTok and Snapchat competitor there isn't really a way to use the same system on anything else. You cannnot reallybuild a DAPP ecosystem on LINO. The team seams to be around my age. But how naive they have become is beyond me. If they are actually trying to just get some money from investors and have something going for the short term, then I'll be happy to believe that story over genuine naïveté.

Final Notes

These information and personal analysis is my attempt to put the relevant facts together and elp my fellow Steemians on their research. I'm not blockchain developer and I don'have have a DLive account. I'm also not far deep in research into this one project as I have better stuff to do. All data are from public sources. You can make up you own mind about them.

What I see is a project with good financial backing and a well done marketing campaign on a solid technology on mostly centralized infrastructure being used by a bunch of naive or short term smart 20-30 year olds. The transparency regarding the token ownership is is close o being bad as Bitconnect although DLIve itself is a decent enough project. If the project gains traction Alphabet & Apple will rake in some good money.

Happy Steeming!