Has Twitch Banned Crypto Livestream Gaming? Here’s More About It
Twitch, owned by Amazon Inc., has announced that it will ban crypto gambling content. This will be implemented from next month, October 18. Live broadcasts of slots, roulette, and dice games on websites such as Stake.com, Rollbit.com, and Duelbits.com are not permitted. This ban comes after the backlash owing to controversial crypto gambling livestreams against […]
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Ever since Bitcoin gained more mainstream attention, it has become clear that certain groups of people were naturally attracted to the idea behind the digital currency. One of those groups were gamers, as they were able to put their powerful GPUs to work mining bitcoin in the early days. And as we have seen over the past year so, video gaming and Bitcoin still seem to go hand in hand. Bitcoin And Gamers: Two Peas in a Pod. Most people still look competitive gaming as a niche market. In a way, they are right, since there are far more casual gamers compared to the number of players taking....
The co-founder of Twitch, Justin Kan launched a gaming-centric non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace called Fractal on December 30. Fractal’s focus is on NFTs with video game utility and the project launched an NFT collection called “Fractals,” a 100,000 unique snowflakes that give users benefits while using the primary and secondary NFT marketplace.
Twitch Co-Founder Launches Fractal NFT Market
On December 30, the co-founder of Twitch, Justin Kan, told his 245,600 Twitter followers that he launched an NFT marketplace called Fractal. Kan also tweeted about....
The multi-year partnership aims to increase local crypto adoption in the esports landscape across the globe. Twitch Rivals, an esports tournament host featuring Twitch streamers and pro gamers, has onboarded crypto trading platform Crypto.com as a global marketing and cryptocurrency platform partner.The multi-year partnership will see Crypto.com as an official partner of Twitch Rivals in the Asia-Pacific region, aiming to increase local crypto adoption in the esports landscape. According to Kris Marszalek, co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com:“With well-over 1 billion gamers worldwide, fans of....
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....
Twitch, an Amazon-owned live streaming video platform which integrated Bitcoin back in August 2014, has began to offer Bitcoin as a payment option again using the Coinbase payment processing gateway since August 21, 2016. Two years ago, Twitch partnered with gaming payments giant Xsolla to provide various payment options to its gamers and users. Through the Xsolla network, users were able to support their favorite gamers and streamers using Bitcoin, which required substantially small transaction fees and processing time compared to traditional forms of payments. However, as the Xsolla....