Dogecoin Price Rebounds after Twitch TV Announcement
Recently, the Dogecoin price has been in decline, in part due to the recent Moolah scandal (Moolah had a strong presence within the Dogecoin community). But the Dogecoin price reversed course on Monday, rising nearly 20% after Twitch announced that they now accept Dogecoin as payment for their video game streaming subscription service. Also Read: Dogecar Driver Josh Wise Places 28th in NASCAR Talladega Race. Dogecoin Price Rebounds after Twitch Announcement. Upon hearing the announcement, investors immediately began rocketing up the Dogecoin price on exchanges. The Dogecoin price-which had....
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Bitcoin tipping service ChangeTip has integrated with video streaming platform Twitch.tv. The integration works by way of a ChangeTip tip bot, which Twitch.tv streamers can authorize to join their chat channels. Once activated, users can begin contributing bitcoin tips. Twitch began accepting direct bitcoin payments for its Turbo subscription service last August, and later announced the addition of dogecoin payments in October. Created in 2011, Twitch reaches millions of users per month and has become a source of income for a number of high-profile streamers. The platform has been buoyed....
Two weeks ago, Alex Green from Moolah.io announced that the cryptocurrency exchange Moolah.io would be shutting down. Due to this, Dogecoin suffered from a 20% price drop, from 71 satoshis to 59. Last week, Twitch.tv shared on their Twitter that they would begin accepting Dogecoin. This drove the Dogecoin price up from 59 satoshis to 70, a 19% increase. Over the past week, however, the Dogecoin price has remained at a steady 70 satoshis. The Dogecoin community has certainly gotten back to their normal routine: previously swamped with Moolah complaints and Twitch posts, the /r/dogecoin....
Dogecoin's humble origins would be all for nothing if it weren't for one innovation early-on that changed everything; the dogetipbot. In the booming Dogecoin subreddit, there was a call for a way to send dogecoins through the platform, similar to the ChangeTip service that Bitcoin utilizes. Finding the motivation to bring a similar service to their fellow Dogecoin users, Josh Mohland and David Dvorak took up the calling and created the dogetipbot. At first, it was a bumpy trip. So many dogecoins were being sent from person to person that the bot couldn't keep up. Foregoing many hours of....
Twitch, the online streaming platform beloved by geeks and gamers from all over the world, started accepting Bitcoin, following an announcement made a few weeks ago. Bitcoin was just one of many payment options announced by Twitch.tv in their international push. We can now take Bitcoin, PaySafeCard, and many more payment options for Twitch Turbo (channel subs soon™). BLOG: http://t.co/Mqlh395pkB. - Twitch (@Twitch) August 2, 2014. A Strategic Move. The growing success platform, which generates nearly 2% of the internet traffic in the United States, allows gamers to broadcast ("stream")....
Gaming platform Twitch has revealed its own virtual currency, Stream+. The coin will get its first rollout in Amazon’s forthcoming game, Breakaway. Stream+: ‘Polls and Wagering,’ and More? Twitch, owned by Amazon, made the announcement yesterday, a day before the start of its annual TwitchCon event in San Diego. “Stream+ is a loyalty points system where....