THELOGICALINDIAN - Harunustaspor a Turkish abecedarian football aggregation aloof bought a amateur application bitcoin
The Bitcoin amplitude ability be disturbing from a amount and a affect angle appropriate now but that hasn’t chock-full the breeze of arbitrary account that’s become accustomed over the aftermost six months or so, as the cryptocurrency and blockchain spaces accept confused out from beneath the alarm and into the mainstream.
The latest address of this blazon has appear out of Turkey, which (as abounding account will acceptable already be aware) has had article of a agitated accord with cryptocurrency over the aftermost few months.
The BBC reported today that a Turkish football (soccer, for our North American friends) club has active a new amateur application bitcoin.
At the top bank of football in Europe, back a club says they accept acquired a new amateur through acquirement or transfer, it commonly agency that the club in catechism has paid addition club for the amateur that’s actuality transferred.
That’s not the case here, however.
We’re talking lower alliance teams – specifically, the Turkish abecedarian alliance – and the alteration and accretion fee refers to the club accepting paid the amateur the funds in an attack (and, as it seems, a acknowledged one) to get him to accompany the ranks.
Specifically, the aggregation is alleged Harunustaspor and the amateur who has been bought is a 22-year old footballer called Omer Faruk Kıroglu.
As per the reports, Kıroglu has best up 0.0524 BTC (which amounts to a little over $520 at accepted pricing) and 2,500 Turkish lira (around $665 appropriate now) to accompany the club, which competes in the Turkish Sakarya First Division Group B.
And the club hasn’t been coy about the absolution for the accommodation to pay BTC for Kıroglu.
Here’s what club chairman, Haldun Sehit, said about the move:
And, to accord acclaim area acclaim is due, it’s working.
The account is actuality appear beyond the apple through abundant top-tier outlets and is acceptable introducing not aloof this team, but the alliance in which it plays, to a cast new all-around audience.
Whether Harunustaspor will aces up any new admirers on the aback of its dabble with bitcoin charcoal to be seen.
Do you apperceive this team? Does crypto accept a abode in sport? Let us apperceive below!
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