A win is a win. Over the last 7 days, cryptocurrency gambling site streams account for around 3% of all twitch viewer traffic. Over the last 7 days, twitch viewers watched a collective 12 million hours of cryptocurrency gambling. With this ban, an average of 73,000 less people will be exposed to cryptocurrency gambling streams at any given moment.
The biggest player currently is stake (dot) com. stake (dot) com is now banned from twitch. All of the top gambling streamers are upset by this: xQc, trainwreck, Aiden Ross, etc. stake (dot) com is illegal in the US and there are no legal online slots games in the US.
A win is a win. Over the last 7 days, cryptocurrency gambling site streams account for around 3% of all twitch viewer traffic. Over the last 7 days, twitch viewers watched a collective 12 million hours of cryptocurrency gambling. With this ban, an average of 73,000 less people will be exposed to cryptocurrency gambling streams at any given moment.
This ban is significantly good.
technology once beyond our wildest dreams, employed in the noble pursuit of watching cryptocurrency gambling streams, what a time to be alive
Its not really a win. Might as well claim Vegas banned gambling when they began issuing licenses for casinos.
They're going after the low-rent / low-overhead operations while leaving all the major players untouched.
The biggest player currently is stake (dot) com. stake (dot) com is now banned from twitch. All of the top gambling streamers are upset by this: xQc, trainwreck, Aiden Ross, etc. stake (dot) com is illegal in the US and there are no legal online slots games in the US.
New Simon's Crew?
But ok. Point taken. I did not realize how big they were.