Reality show to pit Twitch streamers against each other to win 1 BTC

The House of Streams, a Netflix bid licensed for the UK and Ireland, volition diagnostic online streamers successful competitions to instrumentality location 1 Bitcoin. 

According to the show’s website, 8 contestants with a combined 4 cardinal followers volition look connected the world TV series, acceptable to premiere connected June 18. The bid volition reportedly person Twitch streamers vie successful a bid of challenges to triumph 1 Bitcoin (BTC), worthy much than $104,000 astatine the clip of publication.

It’s unclear wherefore the Malta Film Commission, down the accumulation and filming of the show, chose to absorption connected a cryptocurrency prize for the contestants, but the creator of the series, Mark Holland, reportedly said “…the last reward couldn’t person been a elemental currency prize oregon a travel to the Maldives.” The website issued a announcement suggesting that immoderate individuals had already utilized the show’s relation with integer assets to contented a fraudulent memecoin.

“We enactment Bitcoin and nary different memecoin,” the House of Streams said successful a May 22 statement.

Netflix is nary alien to shows astir crypto and blockchain, having been down documentary bid including Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King connected the downfall of crypto speech QuadrigaCX. The streaming work announced successful May that it had greenlit accumulation for The Altruists, connected the lives of erstwhile FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and erstwhile Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison.

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Prominent crypto holders becoming targets?

The 8 contestants successful House of Streams, going by handles including The Black Hokage, CyborgAngel, and OutplayedByJade, did not look to person publically commented connected the bid arsenic of June 6. 

At slightest 1 streamer, not connected with the series, has reported being attacked for their crypto holdings. In March, Kaitlyn Siragusa, nether the grip Amouranth, said a radical of people had breached into her location and demanded crypto. She had posted a screenshot of her Coinbase relationship successful 2024 showing she held astir $20 cardinal worthy of BTC astatine the time.

Siragusa’s onslaught was conscionable 1 of respective incidents involving criminals targeting investors oregon individuals connected to exchanges successful 2025. In France, a radical of assailants allegedly attempted to kidnap and ransom the girl and grandson of Paymium CEO Pierre Noizat.

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