Keeping up with the times: athletes began to receive fees in cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency is steadily entering the lives of not only investors and stock market players, but also athletes. Let's talk about the most striking examples demonstrating that sports and cryptocurrency work well together

In the near future, a Counter-Strike esports tournament will be held in Minsk. The event, bearing the loud name Global Offensive, will host 8 teams from different countries. The prize fund is about $100 thousand. A distinctive feature is that the winner will receive the prize money in cryptocurrency. This decision is an important step for the introduction of blockchain technologies into the gaming industry, says the founder of Global Offensive.

This is not the first crypto fee for experienced e-sportsmen. So, in 2011, at the SC: WB tournament, participants who took 5-8 places received 25 bitcoins. If we take into account the current cost of cryptocurrency, this is quite good.

If digital currency in e-sports won’t surprise anyone, then buying a football player for Bitcoin is an incredible and new thing. Harunustaspor, a Turkish team, bought Omer Faruk Kiroglu, a new player, for Bitcoin. Moreover, the football player will also receive his salary in cryptocurrency.

Recall that Bitcoin has reached Olympic Games. Also, a Canadian speed skater participating in the Games will receive a sponsorship crypto reward, and participants and guests of the Winter Olympics will be able to buy souvenirs and clothing by paying for them with Ethereum.

As soon as the main sponsor of the Danish hockey club “Rungsted” Niklas Nicolaysen became a Bitcoin billionaire, and the club began to introduce new rules. “Rungsted” announced its decision to pay players with cryptocurrency, and the club’s home arena has now been renamed “Bitcoin Arena.”

As we can see, the attitude towards cryptocurrency is ambivalent: some are very afraid of it, others believe that cryptocurrency is the future. One thing cannot be denied for sure: sports undoubtedly benefit from the attraction of digital currencies as fees.