THELOGICALINDIAN - Good account for anyone who takes a abnormal amusement in activity inferior anyhow Theres a new website committed to the salaries of athletes and celebrities adapted into Bitcoin Including that of everybodys admired practitioner of selfadmiration Cristiano Ronaldo
What If They Did ‘Pay [Them] In Bitcoin’?
Just two months ago, Bitcoinist reported on a groundswell of absorption from NFL players, allurement teams to ‘Pay Me In Bitcoin’. Led by Russell Okung, of the LA Chargers, this absorbing angle never absolutely came to any acceptable conclusion.
Nevertheless, it did atom the imagination. So abundant so, that there is now a website and subreddit committed to sourcing the salaries of athletes and celebrities and converting them into Bitcoin. New names are added regularly, and admirers get to accomplish suggestions of who to add abutting via Twitter.
Football, American Football, and Basketball
The blueprint is currently bedeviled by sports stars. This is in allotment bottomward to the about abridgement of non-athletes so far nominated.
The top three salaries listed are all from the footballing apple (or soccer, if you’re that way inclined). Juventus player, Ronaldo, comes in second, which charge eat into him as abundant as it acclaim up the blow of us. His $109 actor annual bacon (including endorsements), currently equates to 10,274.5 BTC, although he isn’t currently a Bitcoin fan.
Top earner, Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, is, however, and if he accustomed all balance in bitcoin, it would bulk to 11,971 BTC. Third abode is Brazilian, Neymar, although if he keeps missing training at Paris St. Germain again he won’t break there for long.
Other sports stars in the top ten are American football star, Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks (8436 BTC), and Basketball fable LeBron James (8389 BTC). Although none of these are listed as actuality into crypto.
Okung currently sits in 58th place, earning a abeyant 1270 BTC per year at today’s prices
Outside Of The World Of Sport
As mentioned, celebrities from alfresco of the antic apple are currently under-represented, conceivably because the account initially focussed alone on sports stars. However, names from the apple of ball are authoritative their way assimilate the list.
Current leader, and technically aloof central the top ten, is Kim Kardashian (although ball ability be addition it a little). Her estimated $72 actor annual income, equates to 6790 BTC.
Then we accept Pirates of the Caribbean star, Johnny Depp in 35th on 3,100 BTC, and rapper 50 Cent at cardinal 44 on 2,830 BTC. Depp is not accepted to be a bit coiner, but 50 Cent is.
We additionally accept Gwyneth Paltrow, who is actual absolutely into cryptocurrency, actuality an advisor to Abra, in 54th abode on 1,890.
It’s all ‘not actual exact’, and hopefully the sports bent will alpha to actual over time, but it’s a agilely agreeable diversion.
Incidentally, Warren Buffett, who has afresh been nominated, would sit aloof beneath Kim Kardashian, with his $66 actor balance (6230 BTC). You can accomplish your own jokes up about that.
Buffett is not a Bitcoiner.
How abundant does your admired celebrity accomplish in Bitcoin? Do let us apperceive in the comments below!
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