Twitch Director Shaan Puri Moves 25% of Net Worth Into Bitcoin to ‘Front Run ...
Twitch director and former CEO of Bebo Shaan Puri announced that he has put 25% of his net worth into bitcoin. He believes that bitcoin presents “a rare opportunity to front run a wave of institutional capital.” Shaan Puri Puts 25% in Bitcoin Shaan Puri, director of Twitch, the streaming video platform owned by Amazon, announced Thursday via Twitter that he has moved 25% of his net worth into bitcoin. Puri was the CEO of the now-defunct social networking platform Bebo between 2017 and 2019 after the company went bankrupt in 2013. The platform went through a series of....
Related News
Ethereum has experienced a market pullback following bitcoin recently. Although the market remains in a downtrend, the digital asset has been holding up quite nicely. Ethereum has been trending above $2,800, almost 50% down from its all-time high. But a model suggests that three is a 4x movement in the near future of the digital asset. Let’s take a look at this model. Ethereum To 4X? In a recent Twitter thread, a crypto investor known as Shaan Puri lays out the model that could drive Ethereum to four times its current price. It starts out by stating that the digital asset is currently....
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....
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")....
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....
One of the major disadvantages associated with centralized services is how they can enforce exclusivity rules in certain cases. With the “war of game streamers” heating up between Twitch and Youtube, exclusivity deals are already being forced upon partners. Depending on whether or not individual streamers have monetized their game streaming, these decisions might be a determining factor. If only there were a decentralized solution to tackle this problem. Over the past few years, the Twitch platform has become synonymous with live game streaming and even watching live e-sports events around....