TIL that the team behind Stake (the online crypto casino) built Kick (the streaming platform) as a response to getting banned from Twitch

another fun fact: they have a not so subtly branded F1 team. Unfortunately, they are the laughing stock of the grid. 

The official team name is a mouthful: Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber

/new-york 🗽 • /untzuntz 😈 • /tastebuds 🍕 Fan of eating tacos and bringing people together, often at the same time 🌮

It’s quite the rabbit hole when you get down there

The two most common scenes for crypto are trading and gambling. In game terms, trading is like PVP and gambling is PVE (the house).

Pumpfun focuses on PVP, while Stake focuses on PVE—and now both are trying to challenge Twitch. That’s interesting.

https://farcaster.xyz/secgov/0x1c322648 , and kick are using Amazon streaming infrastructure which  owns twitch.