Crypto Tipping Added to Streamlabs App, Responsible for 15% of Twitch Streams
Broadcasters on Streamlabs, a Twitch streaming app, can now accept cryptocurrency as tips, the posted on June 1.
According to market intelligence provider, during the first quarter of 2018, the Amazon-owned Twitch garnered 2 bln viewing hours, with Steamlabs making up . Steamlabs reported in April that they had made almost $35 mln in tips in the 2018 Q1.
In order to enable crypto tips, a broadcaster will have to connect their account to crypto exchange and wallet . The blog notes that while only (BTC), (ETH), (LTC), and (BCH) will be available for tipping — as those are currently the only coin options on Coinbase — Streamlabs will be “looking into adding other coins in the future.”
Twitch has been accepting bitcoin payments since 2014, with a slight break before they in 2016.
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Microsoft is continuing its Blockchain journey by integrating Stampery into Microsoft Office Outlook with cross-compatibility.
Office Applications Verify Docs On bitcoin, Ethereum
, which provides verification of documents against both the bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains, will be accessible for verifying emails without users leaving Outlook itself.
“Stampery provides this functionality today by creating hashes of documents submitted through the web and storing them on the Ethereum and bitcoin public blockchains. To enable this capability, Stampery provides a RESTful API that is accessible from applications,” a about the integration from Microsoft explains.
In this project, we leveraged this secure API to create a convenient add-in to Microsoft Outlook that performs like a near-native feature to stamp/certify an email without leaving Outlook or even the specific email that you are viewing.
Removing Centralized Trust
Microsoft adds that while various solutions already exist for document certification online, these involve signature storage via a centralized entity, thus placing trust at a weak point.
“An alternative to relying on a single entity (commercial, public, government, etc.) to keep such proof of identity safe is to create a hash of the document and send that hash to the publicly accessible blockchain, such as bitcoin,” the release continues.
“Once the hash data is present on the public blockchain, the document can’t be changed without invalidating the hash. This approach guarantees both the document’s privacy and the data’s availability for future validation purposes.”
The solution is compatible with products across the Office suite. “In a more general sense, anyone wanting to certify and verify any digital asset could reuse and build upon this knowledge, too,” Microsoft adds, noting the code for the Office implementation is open source and on GitHub.
Microsoft ‘Will Signal UASF’
The move comes as a source claims Microsoft would “by default” support a on the bitcoin network.
In a tweet Tuesday, Daniel Buchner, the corporation’s head of decentralized identity, said that such signalling would occur across “all (bitcoin) full nodes and clients used in Microsoft’s open source decentralized identity implementations.”
By default, all full nodes and clients used in Microsoft's open source decentralized identity implementations will signal for
Asked whether this would mean following a minority chain, Buchner said in a response that it would be “any chain’s version (it’s a cross-chain system) that best preserves/enhances the decentralized state of IDs rooted on it.”
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