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Good news, today cryptocurrency reached Olympic games industry! :)
Speed skater Ted-Jan Bloemen gets paid in cryptocurrency (https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/10/sport/crypto-speedskater-ted-jan-bloemen-winter-olympics-intl/index.html)

that's a wonderful news!!
Feeling good to hear that :D :D

I also read it in news this morning and i think it is a great news for those who are involved in cryptos,especially when at a time there is a lot of rumors trying to paint a bad pictures about cryptocurrencies. We need more of those news to clear the air and move forward. 

That's great news! As more and more celebrities embrace cryptocurrencies, it will gain more popularity and gain more acceptance in common markets. Fingers crossed!

wow. It is very cool
pay an athlete to use cryptocurency, as long as there is approval from the athlete it is legitimate only
and this is also a new way to introduce bitcoin, through sports. to the world
and who knows, this trend will be followed by everyone later, if there is a race. and bitcoin as a gift. I think it will be very exciting  ;D

yeah its good way as long the ethlete know about crypto and agree about the payment hehe..

Olympic games is a fantastic area for crypto advertising.
Any mentions related to cryptocurrency and Olympic are extremely positive. :)

Great news! Bitcoin is developing rapidly, now he is ude and distigue of the Olympic Games! And what will happen next ? How far will it go?

The only news here is the fact that somehow this guy acccepted a shitcoin as payment.

I mean, he's getting paid with a shitcoin that no one has ever heard of, a coin that's been in a downtrend for over a month and has low volume, and while it saw a small spike in the price when the news was published, it seems like people quickly realized that 'onG.social' is nothing more than another vaporware. Chances are this coin is going to disappear before the sponsorship deal with the athlete is over.

With such huge steps, digital gold is being introduced into our lives. This is just the beginning, soon every pensioner will go to shop with bitcoin in your pocket. :D 8) :o

Yep and they simply use Olympics to market their future products. You can't blame them for doing that and I guess they prob paid some part in fiat as well. I myself wouldn't accept some big payments in some shitcoins specially if I couldn't turn them into more valid coins with speed.

Thats awesome, but it will be more great if that athlete get paid with reliable cryptocurrency such as bitcoin or ethereum, not just some cryptocurrency just newly born and have no value. it has value but with really low volume.

i like this news. it seems crypto become more and more popular. one of the best good news in the last days.

It's really cool that crypto-currencies are at this level. I already heard earlier that the football club of London Arsenal advertises some kind of project ICO. I suppose that there will be more such advertisements, both in sports and in other industries.

Such cooperation becomes an advertisement to introduce the world of cryptocurrency to everyone in the world because with the cooperation of athletes and sponsors can make people curious and try to jump into the world of cryptocurrency to invest or trade. This is also good news to influence bitcoin prices in the market.

That's positive news coverage. Didn't see what the coin was though. Still, any positive news is good for crypto in general. :)

from what I read he is "The double world record". this may increase even more the exposure of cryptos, I liked how he replied:


this can be good marketing and I hope more athletes are interested in bitcoin and altcoins. as in this world the tendency of human beings is imitate other people. will have more chances of more athletes to get interested in altcoins and bitcoins


it seems that is ONG Social

Yes, I like this news. The more crypto currency will enter into everyday life, the less likely it will be to crash.

A Dual-Blockchain Token (Waves and Ethereum) related to ONG (OneName Global) and CEEK VR, called ONG Token
after browsing a bit, their sites are: https://ong.social/ & https://www.ongcoin.io/
another competition for steemit?

This is an awesome news and a great step forward. yes it would be nice if the payment was via BTC or other established coin. But heyy! at least it is a cryptocurrency!  people will now understand that crypto is real deal and NOT a fugazi.. 8)

This is cool, but with such a non-stability of the price of the crypto currency, I think it is not profitable for them to receive it. Today, one price, and tomorrow woke up less than 2 times. :o

Wow, its good to hear about that. He became the first athlete to be paid in crypto. I think that is because he is under the sponsorship of ONG Social. However, that could be a good news at the end, even though the crypto couldn't be at high price at the moment. I hope other athletes follow the steps done by  Ted-Jan Bloemen. And the crypto sponsorship should be widen up to cross online game competition.

It should be profitable, the price is going up some. All the Olympian needs to do is hold the coin and that's it.

It is good to see someone gets paid in crypto currency,but by looking at the heading i really thought the athlete is getting paid by bitcoin,it is really hard to get sponsors for winter Olympic athletes and he is getting paid in some new tokens,it is good for him as he is the first athlete to get in that coin,either way it is a good start and hopefully we will see more.

Very good news my friend thanks so much for sharing. crypto will open new doors for humen

I agree - this is very good news! If all athletes are transferred to salary in bitcoin, then this will be a very serious support for the development of bitcoin and other currencies! The main thing is to start paying salaries to football players to see where they then spend such big money!)))

This is good news for both crypto-community and the athlete himself.
Never heard about ONG so far by the way...it looks to be a very little project, with low volumes, only traded on etherdelta. Not exactly the top of cryptocoins...

Olympic gold shines twice brightly when it supported by crypto gold. ;)
IOC now should split rewards like:
Gold - reward in Bitcoin
Silver - reward in Ethereum
Bronze - reward in Litecoin
4th place - smth like Doge coin ;D

Reading the news is a good one though because to a large extent, its bringing some level of publicity to crypto community but its still not addressing the bone of contention and not going to be any different from the series of celebrities that have come out to declare support for one crypto currency or the other.

The publicity he is trying to garner is already there and his actions to me is more selfish because whether the results come or not, he is already taken care of. What really matters that people are interested in is the security of their funds and the guarantee that they won't wake up tomorrow to realize that their entire wealth has gone. Until then, every form or celebrity campaigns are just cosmetic approaches.

I think events when someone, that is present in media, use Bitcoin or cryptocurrency for their business is very important.

Rapper 50 cent did something similar in 2014 and back than it didn't matter that much. But fast forward to 2018 the same news is well received.
Of course the price is more serious now, but still its a great breakthrough.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/24/16930010/50-cent-rich-bitcoin-twitter-instagram-humblebrag

Smart guy, I wish my boyfriend would be like that! :)
Seriously, than more publicity like this crypto gets, than better it is, but it's a very complicated and not user-friendly thing to get into at the moment :/

This is part of the growth of cryptocurrencies in the world. Little by little it is introduced in all sectors of the population: in industry, commerce, tourism, and now in sport; Surely soon it will cover health, culture and other sectors of the population.

It's not easy to deal with the transactions and wallets today, but we are just 10 years from the beginning of crypto.
In next 10 years we will start to use it every day :)

Ok, I do not want to be a downer here, but what happens if this athlete gets his payment in Crypto and this coin drops to

zero. Looks like this is not payment in Bitcoin, so the chance is high that this might fail. We do not want the media to report

that a world class athlete got paid say $100 000 at the time and after a year, when he cashed out..... the value dropped to

$100.  ::)

I hope that it is truth  :) At present there a lot of fake news and it is hard to understand what is real some times..but anyway it is good :)

That's very exciting. Is is the first time Bitcoin is officially used during a worldwide event? I think it might be a great promotion for Bitcoin, especially if others will take up the initiative, who knows, maybe this year Oscars will have something associated with cryptocurrencies.

This is definitely excellent promotion for crypto. Hope to hear more of such positive news related to crypto and Olympic games.

Wow, I didn't expect that. I think some of them athletes have already set their eyes on the cryptocurrency market, at least those who have signed up with getting paid through cryptocurrencies. However, as I know, that may be an incentive from their government because athletes join the Olympics  to represent their countries are actually not getting paid for it. So having read that they accept cryptos as payment, then that means whatever country they are coming from, is showing their support on embracing the market, which is an even better news.

Step by Step, the crypto world will dominate the real world! Prepare your pockets, we are going to get rich. :)

That would be great; however, they are pricey to even be considered. I think that the so called payment they are getting is also a means of promotion for whatever developer or company is backing those coins. By getting their coins in the hands of those athletes, which are known world-wide, it could give them great traction to promote their coins and have more people talk about it, and hopefully, invest in it as well. I don't think the athletes are giving too much attention with that because I would think that they don't bother themselves with the cryptomarket, in general.

Thats pretty cool but I would like to see an olympic athlete like someone who is the best in top 50 athlete's worldwide because that way bitcoin will get more popular because people would see that even the greatest people from the planet are paid in bitcoin and they will buy more. Soon I think many companies and not only will accept bitcoin as a payment method because more and more people are using it and would like to pay with cryptocurrencies

That could be a good start to a more far-reaching cryptocurrency activity. Having read that what's given are only low value or not-so-popular coins, I think that the main goal hear is no the investment but the marketing. I think the developers are after the idea that Olympic-level athletes are quite popular with the masses, and therefore, having to know that they have agreed to receiving crytocurrencies, it would give more people the idea that if the famous are getting on the wagon, why not us as well. I think it's a good marketing move.

This is a very good steep to the real blokchain revolution... we need more steep like this for Expand bitcoin Services

Recently I have heard that a coin made sponsorship agreement with football team "Espanyol" and now the athlete gets paid in crypto makes me feel that sport arena would be the best way to advertise crypto

Not all olympians though but only one top player and to note he has a one year conract signed with CEEK VR and he is paid by them in crypto. I supposed this CEEK VR might be having an ICO im not sure. But good for this athlete.

This is just an advertisement for some shitcoin. Why would people be excited about this?

Well, modern top athletes (and we are talking about the double world record holder here) get most of their income from sponsors, not from regular salaries from their respective clubs. Ted-Jan Bloemen accepted a sponsorship and will get paid in cryptocurrencies. It is an advert, yes - that is the purpose of sponsorship for the sponsors, but also a milestone as this is just the first one. Many will join soon enough, I am sure of it.

It's wonderful news. The crypto world is becoming more and more popular and could not be an opportunity to miss the Olympic Games.

Ceek VR reached the Olympic industry a remarkable achievement.
The most innovative way, in that way maybe can boost the popularity of crypto in the eyes of the world community after a recent minor accident occurred, and public confidence in crypto will be re-achieved.

This is really good news overall for crypto, now more and more people will be interested in that coin means its good. If some more alt coin sponsor sports personalities around the world, the word will spread like crazy and crypto will be sky rocketing. Good time coming soon

I agree with you, bitcoin will be more popular if it can be introduced to athletes, it is a very good promotion because athletes can be paid with bitcoin, the world will know that bitcoin is so valuable.

looks good, but I hope there are no obstacles in the transaction as is often experienced by the bitcoiners at this time.

It is interesting,  Canada is open for crypto, I think athlete will get profit from this kind of payment.

This is a great news, speed skater 1st athlete to be paid using cryto hopefully not the last.

I think that this is good news indeed. Bitcoin goes up whenever the demands go high. It means that it is directly proportional with each other. And by this, cryptocurrency was used to paid the athlete. It made somehow a small difference with the price.

He's about to be paid and so, he's not paid yet. And it's not clear what specific coin in the 300 million coins ONG Social has mined Bloemen would receive.

I must say that is great news. Looks like bitcoin and all other cryptocurrencies are already mainstream. Many people prefer to be paid by them and it is very cool that we may have bitcoin riches in sports.

Another great news that i hear today, little by little crypto accepted and get use with people nowdays
I hope next year it will more famous and lot of country accept it, legalized and make regulation of it

Interesting stuff. Looks like it's about SportyCo - decentralized sports financing platform, which is the new sponsor of Espanyol.
With the partnership of SportyCo and RCD Espanyol crypto moves into top tier football (https://www.coinnuts.com/with-the-partnership-of-sportyco-and-rcd-espanyol-crypto-moves-into-top-tier-football/)
This is fantastic that sport and crypto gets closer and closer.

This is definitely good news.  We need more endorsements by athletes, celebrities, and other people with strong followings.  It wouldn't hurt to have a credible investor as well.

This is good news for the cryptocurrency market. I am sure there will be many more like this. In fact, I believe in the future for every industry there will be a separate coin to suit the special needs of each separate market.

Here is another Olympic update from USA Luge team: Bitcoin at the USA Olympics this winter. (https://medium.com/@altcoinalerts/bitcoin-at-the-usa-olympics-this-winter-db31b1b4dd0a)
Looks like there are some certain tax benefits for donating BTC in US.
Not sure, are those tax benefits applied only to sport or other areas as well?

Its great to find out about that. He turned into the primary competitor to be paid in crypto. I feel that is on account of he is under the sponsorship of ONG Social. Notwithstanding, that could be an uplifting news toward the end, despite the fact that the crypto couldn't be at high cost right now. I trust different competitors take after the means done by Ted-Jan Bloemen. What's more, the crypto sponsorship ought to be augment up to cross web based amusements.

It's been long overdue since bitcoin has been making the news ans sports especially soccer is the most popular sport i expected more of this to happen even a year or two ago because sports can really promote crypto currencies like bitcoin even better and the springing up of many sports betting companies online and their impact on spoorts is enough evidence to p[rove that sports and cryptocurencies can help each other and they've got some connection.

Even though we don't know what currency they were paid in, being paid in a crypto currency is the most exciting prize. This is great publicity for crypto currencies along with provided the winner with a long term investment opportunity beyond the initial reward.

That's great news for crypto currencies in general, but especially good advertisement for the athlete and the mentioned sponsors. I would also be interested in what crypto currency the athlete got, but this might be revealed at another time.

I think it's an awesome way to get crypto out there! Global even! Hope to see more of this.

whether this can motivate the sports industry on other branches to adopt cryptourrency?
need an international branch to be able to influence other industries, eg World Cup Soccer. With prizes using cryptocurrency, then adoption on other sports will emerge

This is really interesting because it shows the popularity of cryptocurrency in this present life. I feel that the day that the whole world uses most of the cryptocurrency in transactions and payments has not gone too far. The cryptocurrency market is growing very well over the years and it is a remarkable development of a new market such as cryptocurrency.

Do the athletes know more about cryptocurrency ?, or just know it ?. If indeed the athletes know more about cryptocurrency, I think that race deserves and is quite unique in gift giving. But if the athletes were not very understanding with the crypto, they are given a decent gift shaped ordinary course.

Hello everyone an excellent kind of earnings on crypto currency is investing in Bitcoin and it takes quite a lucrative profit not so much time as it seems not so difficult to deal with it.

It is good news for cryptocurrency users but in the same time it is weird seeing that many governments are against it

That's great news!! I am sure that he is not the last who will get paid in cryptocurrency.

Cryptocurrencies are well adapted in sports and betting industries and Japan who will host this 2020 Olympics are also preparing to introduce the bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. There is no doubt that cryptocurrencies will be adopted to other industry aside from sports , entertainment and music industries as well.

Good news from Olympic Games)Especially from Canada!)But real success will be when olympic committee will give athletes not a medal, but a cryptocoin)) ;D

nice, i hope there will be many things happen like this in the future.
peoples got paid in cryptocurrency, so the crypto is used by everyone in the world.

where did you get that news? is there a legit source? if there is then this is probably a good news because this can definetely help and boost the popularity of bitcoin because of the exposure that it will get due to advertising in the olympic event. many countries all over the world will witness it and this may bring confident to them to think that bitcoin is really legit and not a scam. ill be looking forward seing this, for sure this will be an exciting event

good news has begun to come

I hope our country will be the next of it because our government has a little budget on athlete and sometimes as an athlete you need to provide on your own to pursue your dreams. I experience before that my friend is an athlete that he can't provide shoes on her own to run on a contest, so I've let her borrow my shoes so he can run comfortably. Even though he did not win in that contest I know that someone will see her talent and sponsor him.