“One of the top game streamers recently moved over to a crypto version of game streaming, precisely because this guy named PewDiePie, most popular person on YouTube because, precisely because he can be part of, for the reasons I articulated here, that he moved over to a crypto-driven game streaming platform because he wants to have community ownership, he wants to feel like he has a voice in the community, and he wants to participate in the upside of the network.”
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