Abstract
This publication specifies a per-item visibility setting on short-form video that doubles as the boundary between two scales of a tipping ledger. A creation tool captures clips of a real act of kindness, often the same situation before and after, and assembles them into a short video record; rewards attach only to records that are recorded live, visible to family or public, and pinned to a real location. Each record is created private, visible to and tippable by the creator's own household on a family-scale ledger that runs over conventional payment rails. Setting one record public changes two things at once: its audience widens from household to any participant, and its settlement rail switches from the family ledger to a peer-to-peer layer on a public blockchain, where strangers may send value-bearing secondary tips from their own balances. No account migration, second onboarding or port of balances occurs; each record is scoped individually, so one participant can occupy both scales at once. The same private-to-public move is identified as a general pattern for crossing from local to global scope, shared with provenance links and multi-family membership. Public exposure sits on a base reward, funded by the system's reward pool, that is independent of reach, and prestige is carried by a reputation measure driven by the participant's onward giving rather than by earnings. Limits: the blockchain layer is not live and the rail switch is unbuilt; the constraints defeat fabrication but not staging; earnings under public exposure remain concentrated.
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Recommended Citation
Ly, Thon, "The Studio and the B-Short Bridge: A Private-to-Public Toggle as the Phase-1-to-Phase-2 Crossing — Per-Item Visibility Setting on Short-Form Video as a Migration-Free Switch from a Family Tipping Ledger to Blockchain Settlement", Technical Disclosure Commons, (September 29, 2026)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/11899