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NFL Pro Bowl Tackle Okung Taking Part of Salary in BTC

Russell Okung of the Carolina Panthers has long said he wants to be paid in Bitcoin. Now, he is going to be able to do that thanks to Zap’s Strike product that converts the digital currency into U.S. dollars. So reports Bloomberg.

nfl 3644686 640smallOkung’s contract calls for $13 million a year in U.S. currency. He is planning on converting half to Bitcoin. Okung has long extolled the virtues of Bitcoin and his official Twitter bio even reads “life, liberty and #bitcoin.”

Read the full article from Bloomberg.

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