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Matt Barkley might be a backup quarterback for the Buffalo Bills now, but when he was a free agent looking for a team, a unique contract request he had reportedly cost him some playing opportunities. That’s because the signal-caller wanted to be paid in Bitcoin, but a couple of teams, namely the Cincinnati Bengals and San Francisco 49ers, denied the weird request.
NFL Quarterback @MattBarkley tried to get the San Francisco 49ers and Cincinnati Bengals to each pay his contracts in Bitcoin.
Neither would do it.
Matt is just one of many Bitcoiners that are playing in the NFL on Sundays š„š„
— Pomp šŖ (@APompliano) May 14, 2019
Already am mining https://t.co/Wgn8KVdLYA
— Matt Barkley (@MattBarkley) May 14, 2019
We’ve all seen plenty of success stories of people cashing out hard with Bitcoin, with some financial experts even saying that it’s a more stable investment than Amazon. Whether or not that’s true doesn’t seem to matter much to Matt Barkley, because he knows that, right now, having some stock in Bitcoin can buy some first-class things; like, say, a Rolls Royce, which accepts the cryptocurrency as a form of payment.
You can already buy a @rollsroycecars with BTC
— Matt Barkley (@MattBarkley) May 14, 2019
While Matt Barkley’s strange contract request was denied by both the Bengals and Niners, he’s not the only NFL player hoping that, one day, a franchise gets on board by paying in Bitcoin. Another guy in the league who is fully on the crypto train is Los Angeles Chargers’ offensive tackle Russell Okung, who tweeted out support for Barkley’s random payment request option.
Pay me in Bitcoin.
— OKUNG š (@RussellOkung) May 14, 2019
How dope would it be to see a ESPN headline with an athlete being paid in $BTC? https://t.co/Ey6oOcEmb8
— OKUNG š (@RussellOkung) May 14, 2019
Iām part of the revolution. Long $BTC, short the bankers.
— OKUNG š (@RussellOkung) May 14, 2019
With a single share of Bitcoin currently trading at $7,961, anyone who got in on the cryptocurrency stock years ago is probably really happy with their decision to do so. After all, a single Bitcoin cost just $446 on May 20, 2016, meaning there’s lots of new money millionaires out there from buying it just a few years ago. While guys like Matt Barkley and Russell Okung are fully in support of the thing, there’s almost no chance in hell that an NFL team will start using it as a form to pay its players.
That said, for all those who have cashed out by using Bitcoin, good for you, because I’m still a working man while you’re probably vacationing somewhere awesome right now, staying in a villa that’s overlooking the Mediterranean.