New Netflix series has Twitch streamers fight for 1 BTC
In the House of Streams, a Netflix series broadcast in Great Britain and Ireland, online streamers compete against each other in various competitions, with prize money a bitcoin.
According to the show's website, eight candidates with a total of four million followers will appear in the reality TV series, which should premiere on June 18. According to reports, the Twitch streamers will compete against each other in a number of challenges, around 1 Bitcoin (BTC) to win, which is worth more than $ 104,000 at the time of publication.
It is unclear why the Malta Film Commission, which is behind the production and filming of the show, opted for a cryptocurrency as a price for the participants, but the creator of the series, Mark Holland, reported that “the great reward could not simply be a cash price or a trip to the Maldives.” However, the website already gave a warning notice The result is that some people have already used the connection of the show to crypto to spend a fraudulent memo coin.
“We support Bitcoin and no other Memecoin,” emphasized the House of Streams in a statement on May 22nd.
Netflix is full when it comes to crypto and blockchain series. Netflix has already produced documentary series like Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King about the decline of the Quadrigacx crypto tour. In May, the streaming service also announced that it gave the green light for the production of The Altruists about the life of the former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and the former CEO of Alameda Research, Caroline Ellison.
Prominent crypto investors become a target
The eight participants of House of Streams, who appear under the names The Black Hokage, Cyborgangel and Outplayedbyjade, have not publicly commented on the series by June 6th.
At least one streamer who is not connected to the series reported that he was attacked because of his crypto assets. In March, Kaitlyn Siragusa said that under the name Amouranth appeared that a group of people broke into their house and asked for crypto as a ransom. She had posted a screenshot of her coin base account from 2024, which showed that she had BTC worth around $ 20 million at that time.
The attack on Siragusa was just one of several incidents in which criminals were targeting investors or people in 2025 who are connected to stock exchanges. In France, a group of attackers is said to have tried to kidnap the daughter and grandson of the CEO of Paymium, Pierre noizat and demand ransom.
