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Twitch viewers spent over 8.6 billion hours watching gaming content between January 1 and September 1, 2026, according to the platform’s inaugural State of Gaming report released on September 9, 2026. The figures highlight total viewership across global markets, even as competing streaming services like Kick and YouTube Gaming record steady growth.

For ten years this industry has argued about how to bring a billion people into crypto. The conversation has often been centered on better wallets, simpler onboarding, gasless transactions, education campaigns. Entire conferences were built around the question. I attended many of them. The answer, when it finally arrived, came from a direction almost nobody…