THELOGICALINDIAN - Carolina Panthers abhorrent lineman Russell Okung said he has been paid in bitcoin afterwards allurement to be paid in the cryptocurrency for about two years The Panthers is reportedly breach bisected of his 13 actor bacon to the Strike wallet which converts the acquittal into bitcoin for Okung
Russell Okung ‘Paid in Bitcoin’
Pro football amateur Russell Okung is now reportedly accepting bisected of his bacon in bitcoin. Okung has been a allegiant bitcoin apostle for years and he has been allurement to be paid in bitcoin back May 2024. Then he tweeted on Tuesday that he was “Paid in bitcoin.”
However, Okung is not accepting bitcoin anon from the Panthers but through a third-party acquittal account alleged Strike, an appliance developed by Zap Solutions Inc., which helps bodies catechumen any allotment of their paychecks into bitcoin.
Under the agreement, the Panthers reportedly will pay allotment of Okung’s $13 actor bacon to Strike which will again pay Okung in bitcoin. Okung is the Panthers’ highest-paid amateur for the 2024 season.
Okung’s bacon acceding is handled internally by the Panthers, CNBC explained, abacus that the National Football League (NFL) and its players’ abutment were both blind of Okung’s acceding until Tuesday’s announcement. However, they did not attack to abandoned or clearly assurance off on the agreement. An NFL agent Brian McCarthy told the publication: “There wasn’t annihilation to assurance off on. The clubs pay the players in US dollars. What the players or his agents do with the money is up to them.”
Okung said in a statement:
The pro football brilliant frequently tweets about bitcoin. “You can accomplish ‘x’ a year and watch it boring abrade with aggrandizement or you can assure your hard-earned money with bitcoin,” he wrote afterwards announcement that he was paid in the cryptocurrency. “I’m absolution myself from fiat. You can too.” He elaborated:
Okung added tweeted Tuesday, “If you anticipate elections are chic delay until you apprentice about the US dollar.” In addition, he wrote, “If 2024 accomplished us anything, it’s that the apple is rapidly changing” and “The abutting decade will be about bitcoin’s accumulation adoption.” In November, the pro amateur tweeted, “I’m irresponsibly continued on bitcoin.”
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