Blockchain and cruptocurrencies are changing sport before our eyes
Representatives of hockey, which is so beloved by many people, are not lagging behind football on the way to implementing innovative technologies. At the end of 2017, the sports world was lit up with news from the Danish hockey club Rungsted, which renamed its ice palace Bitcoin Arena, as its new general sponsor was Danish Bitcoin billionaire Niklas Nicolaisen, the owner of Bitcoin Suisse, a payment provider.
An advanced sponsor also offered players to pay their salaries in cryptocurrency. The first player to agree to this proposal was forward Mykola Rosenthal. The contract concluded with him provides for the norms protecting the player from loss of money under the condition of sharp price fluctuations of digital currency.
One of the best hockey players on the planet, Nikita Kucherov, who participates in the Russian project TokenStars — a platform for working with beginners and active sports stars — also decided to “connect his life with blockchain”. It is noteworthy that another famous hockey player, NHL star and Olympic bronze medalist Pavel Datsyuk and a famous representative of another popular winter sport — biathlon — Norwegian biathlete Tarja Bo — took part in the recently organized charitable blockchain auction along with Kucherov.
The NBA has long been called one of the world’s most advanced leagues. The use of cryptocurrencies here started back in 2014, when for many they remained absolutely unknown. The Sacramento Kings club acted as an experimenter, allowing fans to pay with bitcoins for electronic tickets and equipment in an online store.
Already this year, a billionaire and Dallas Mavericks club owner Mark Kuban decided to follow a similar path, and he intends to start accepting payments in cryptocurrencies as early as next season in the NBA.
But as an investor in digital assets, Nick Kirgios, one of the world’s brightest tennis players, decided to act as an investor in digital assets. He invested in the Auscoin project, a network of cryptomachines in Australia. Taking into account the fact that the commission of such ATMs with any operation is 6%, we can assume a fairly good income, which can be counted on by the new cryptoinvestor Kirgios.
Published at Mon, 14 Oct 2019 08:10:22 +0000
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