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A video game streamer received over $ 70,000 bitcoins yesterday, while he played RuneScape on the Twitch video stream service in front of an audience of around two thousand. The separate separate donations were a shock to Sick_Nerd, the player's gaming handle.
Several spectators recorded the flow and reactions of Sick_Nerd, who had difficulty believing that they were not the object of a joke. he he wrote yesterday on Twitter:
Thanks to my mysterious benefactor [sic] whoever you are, really a quantity of money that changes the life that I or nobody deserves [sic] but look what happened. crazy
Bitcoin was donated by a user using the "lightpuma" handle.
I do not even know what to think pic.twitter.com/EpZhY0wCnM
– Sick Nerd (@Sick_Nerd) 11 January 2019
RuneScape, developed by Jagex, is a MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game), recognized by the Guiness Book of World Records in 2017 as the largest number of users in any online multiplayer online videogame – over 250 million.
The particular version of Sick_Nerd's game seems to be the so-called "Old School Runescape".
Twitch Accept Crypto
Twitch started offering an encryption option, in addition to Paypal, in mid-2018 through another company called Streamlabs. They then launched support for all the usual suspects: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash. Streamlabs is compatible with Twitch, as well as with other streaming platforms such as YouTube, and offers a complete suite of software to help streamer manage their livefeeds, content and donations.
Some players make big money with their game, with one of the biggest streamer claiming to earn $ 20,000 a month from a combination of donations, ads and subscriptions on Twitch and YouTube. According to TwitchTracker.com, in 2018 were observed 560 billion minutes of Twitch, from 292 billion in 2016.
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