Twitch Gamer Receives US$74,000 Worth of Bitcoin
During his Old School RuneScape stream, Twitch gamer Sick_Nerd anonymously received a donation of 20 bitcoins, worth US$74,000, from one of his two thousand viewers last January 11. The anonymous benefactor with the handle “lightpuma” donated the bitcoins in several separate transactions. As of this writing, one Bitcoin can be exchanged for US$3,590.
Sick_Nerd is a professional gamer and verified streamer who has been actively playing for five years. He mostly plays and streams Old School RuneScape, a 2007 version of the fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). With this, he has gained over 100,000 followers.
After receiving the generous donation, Sick_Nerd expressed his gratitude on Twitter. He said:
“If that money is genuinely real I’m not going to be a retard with it. That’s a down payment on a house or something like that, no versace flip flops or anything I swear.”
If that money is genuinely real I'm not going to be a retard with it.
That's a down payment on a house or something like that, no versace flip flops or anything I swear.— Sick Nerd (@Sick_Nerd) January 11, 2019
He then made a follow-up tweet on a more serious note. It read:
“Thank you to my mysteriously benefactor whoever you are, genuinely a life changing amount of money that I or nobody deserves but look what happened. Crazy”
Thank you to my mysteriously benefactor whoever you are, genuinely a life changing amount of money that I or nobody deserves but look what happened.
Crazy— Sick Nerd (@Sick_Nerd) January 11, 2019
Twitch is a live streaming video game platform that is a subsidiary of Amazon. It is a popular site with an average of about 15 million daily users, 140 million monthly viewers, and 2.2 million monthly streamers. This has enabled video gamers to make a sustainable living out of gaming with monetized videos and community donations.
In mid-2018, Twitch started accepting donations in cryptocurrency with the help of a broadcasting software called Streamlabs. Users can make donations in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash. With the adoption of crypto in a popular gaming platform like Twitch, more and more users can get into crypto and pave the way for its mainstream integration.
