With cryptocurrency stocks crashing to concerning low points in recent weeks, anxiety is setting in among the web3 community. Streaming media businesses operating in the web3 ecosystem – like those building communities of users to power decentralized transcoding and peer-to-peer network delivery – rely on cryptocurrency to generate the smart contracts that reward node operators comprising these blockchain-backed networks. If individual node operators aren’t being rewarded sufficiently to cover their overheads, then what incentives are there to continue leasing excess bandwidth and compute resources? Entire web3 communities could collapse unless cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ether bounce back in a big way, and people with vested interests are fiercely defensive that bouncing back is exactly what will happen. Of course, to…