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JungleTV.live is a way of earning Banano cryptocoins by watching videos. Users queue-up YouTube videos (for which they pay bananos) for JungleTV viewers to watch and get paid those bananos. Normally, the bananos paid are in the range of 0.09-to-0.24 bananos. However, I have seen videos where, at the end, the payout is five, ten, fifteen, twenty, or more bananos.
Because the programming for the JungleTV is not curated, that means you, as a JungleTV viewer, will see all kinds of videos. They range from the expected music videos to cooking programs (Kitchen of Death by a Metalhead -- "put it into the Blender of Chaos..."), skateboarding, skiing, cartoons, home and professional animations, debates, funny out-takes, commercials, fart videos (which are limited to one minute of farting, only), and just about everything else you can imagine. Last night I watched a video of a guy who built a catapult to throw squirrels to protect his garden. They just kept coming back for more "free" flight.
There are only a few rules enforced by the moderators. First, no repeating a video several times in succession. Second, no pornography or obscene videos. Third, no videos promoting hate against others.
Except for the language in some of the rap and gamer videos, the channel is surprisingly teenager-friendly.
Viewers receive bananos at the end of each video, equally divided among the current viewers. However, you have to have watched at least forty-percent (40%) of the video to collect. So if you start watching a video towards the end, you won't get rewarded for that video. The amount of bananos you collect from a video are dependent on several factors, such the video's length and if the user posting it paid extra to make the video unskippable. Sometimes a user will spend far more bananos on video than the basic charge as a way to boost what the viewers get — the higher amounts I mentioned before.
As with all sites on the Internet, these requirements may change as the site evolves.
Unfortunately, as in all things, there are people who try to game the system to get more than their fair share. As a result, using a VPN connection means you can only watch the videos, you won't get bananos. Because some people tried to use scripts and bots to pretend they were watching while they were off doing something else or sleeping, the moderators have set up an hCaptcha system. A button comes up periodically to see if you are "Still There?" Clicking/hitting the button pulls-up an hCaptcha that you have to solve. That can be a bit annoying, but participating in Chat is a solution. More on that in a moment.
As you watch JungleTV Chat, you will notice that the number of bannaos awarded for the video that just ended, as well as the number of Active viewers, will appear as a message. The number of Active users are those who are participating in Chat or have completed the hCaptcha successfully. The number of Watchers (the eye and number at the top right of the screen, in Figure One, see below) includes both active users and those who are watching, but for one reason or another haven't registered, completed the hCaptcha, or participated in Chat.
Geting Started
When you first visit JungleTV.live, you'll see a screen something like Figure One, below.
At this point, you can start watching the videos. If you aren't interested in collecting the bananos or participating in Chat, you're done at this point. Enjoy!
You'll notice that at the right there's a list of the currently playing and the upcoming videos. Above that list are a double-caret, Queue, Chat, and an eye with a number. The double-caret hides the list of upcoming videos. The Queue is what we are looking at. The Chat switches out the Queue list of videos with a chat column (See Figure Two, below. Notice I have Dark Mode turned on). If you are registered, you can interact with the other viewers. The eye/number is list of total viewers watching at this moment.
Above the video currently playing is the Channel name, a day-night selector button, What's this, Earn Rewards, and Enqueue Video. What's This, of course, tells you about JungleTV. Selecting Earn Rewards is how you register with JungleTV. Selecting Enqueue Video lets you put your choice for a video into the Queue, but only if you are registered, first.
As time goes on, other buttons might appear.
Registering
Registering is very simple. When you select the Earn Rewards button, you get the screen in Figure Three.
Fill in the Banano Address box with the address for your Banano Wallet. This is where the bananos will be sent. There is no fee for that action. You get the full amount of banano each time.
You can also use this screen to unregister from JungleTV by deleting your address from the box. JungleTV will acknowledge that your wallet is no longer going to receive any banano.
The next screen is very important. Before doing anything on this screen, Figure Four, copy your current representative to a safe location. You will want it in a few moments.
Set your wallet's representative to the representative in the address box in Figure Four. This is a fake address, and changes for each person registering.
If you are on a phone, you can get a copy of the fake representative's address by pressing the small set of pages to the right of the address box. You can then paste that address into your Wallet's Representative box. You can also press on the QR Code, the address will be displayed, and you can copy it manually.
You have five minutes to do this before it resets and needs a different address for the "fake" representative.
Once you have JungleTV's fake representative's address in your wallet, the Wallet will indicate the address is fake and ask you to set it to a real representative.
You only need the fake address in place long enough for JungleTV to "see" that you changed it as required. This is to prevent someone from trying to steal your wallet by spoofing JungleTV with your Banano Wallet address — which is public information. A Spoofer won't be able to change your Wallet's representative, which proves you are the owner of the wallet.
Once you have completed the process in your Wallet of changing the representative to their "fake" one, you will see Figure Five, below.
The button at the bottom saying "Begin Watching" will take you back to the the screen in Figure One, except there will be a small tag beside the JungleTV logo saying "Rewarding" followed by your Wallet's address.
You are now considered an Active viewer, and in a few moments the first hCaptcha will appear. After that, you will start getting bananos added to your wallet. You will need to particiapte in the Chat or periodically finish the hCaptcha to continue getting banano.
Now you can go back to your wallet and set the representative back to the original you were using. I suggest, if you were using the default representative, that you should change to another. The default Wallet representatives now represent over 50% of the total banano-owners now in existence.
This is not good for a supposedly "decentrailized coin." I suggest either ban_3batmanuenphd7osrez9c45b3uqw9d9u81ne8xa6m43e1py56y9p48ap69zg, ban_1cynode6yw8x69f1jhoh7m5tys83e8axe5jumfrp5mnhcmfyfx8afu53y79w, or ban_1gt4ti4gnzjre341pqakzme8z94atcyuuawoso8gqwdx5m4a77wu1mxxighh. They have an online rate of 100% for the last thirty days. For a complete list of Representatives, visit https://yellowspyglass.com/representatives.
Enqueuing Videos
If you have a video you want to show other people, select the Enqueue button shown at the top-right in Figure One. That will bring up the screen below, Figure Six.
Almost any YouTube video can be added to the JungleTV programming queue. There is a minimum price to each video you add to the queue. That price reflects the video's length, the number of videos already in the queue, and the current JungleTV viewership. Naturally, the longer a video is, the more it costs. But it doesn't scale up very fast. A half-hour video is barely double the cost of a three minute video.
If there are no viewers when your video comes up to play, you will be reimbursed.
There are two conditions set at this point. First, Videos must not be age-limited. Second, Videos, currently, cannot be longer than thirty minutes.
Also, you can select to have your video unskippable. That is, someone else can't kick your video off playing by substituting their video. This is usually seen when a particularly boring or objectionable video is playing (the farts video, for example). or someone has queued several episodes of a show, one right after the other, and viewers want something different.
Making your video unskippable currently increases the cost by a factor of nineteen. Thus, a thirty-banano (30) video would cost five-hundred-seventy (570) bananos!
After selecting and pasting in your video's address, you will see Figure Seven, below. I chose a Baby Metal video for this example.
As you can see, the video is first checked that it can be played. Then you are given three options. You can add it to the end of the queue for the cheapest rate (in this case 23.9 ban), add it to be the next in line in the queue after the currently-playing video (which would cost 71.1 ban), or skip the current video and play your video immediately (which would cost the most at 239 ban). The prices are good for two minutes, regardless of viewership changes or the length of the queue.
As before, you can use copy&paste to send the bananos from your wallet, or use the QR Code.
Once payment is received, the video is queued or starts playing.
JungleTV Tricks
In Chat you can talk to other viewers, or even the moderators. Gabriel, the creator of the site also comes on sometimes, especially when there are updates to the site. Also, as menitoned above, participating in Chat will prevent the hCaptcha from appearing. The conversations are varied enough that this isn't difficult to do, it you're desparate, just comment on the current video.
Currently, the names displayed in Chat are the actual wallet addresses for the viewers using Chat. If you click on a chatter's name, it is copied to your message area at the bottom of the chat screen (see Figure Eight, below) where it displays "Say something...".
You can also click and copy their address to send them bananos as a tip, if you want.
If you go to the Queue view and click on the bananos for the person who requested a video (see Figure One), you can use https://yellowspyglass.com/search to see how much he paid JungleTV to play the video. Or to tip them for their excellent choice of a video.
Al in all, I have found JungleTV an excellent music channels. People from all over the world participate, and all genres pf music, too. As well as other stuff. I've had it playing on my other monitor (I plugged in a second monitor) while writing this. Some of the videos I haven't liked, so I just lowered the volume while they were on and kept working.
I hope you enjoy JungleTV as much as I do.
