25% of italian football club bought with cryptocurrency

[Zebulun18]

Italy has been one of the pioneers of digital currency selection. I figure this kind of news may influence other football clubs to consider tolerating crypto as well. Possibly some time or another we'll see its utilization in different games as well and additionally wears wagering. Digital currency is getting mass selection and mindfulness which is something worth being thankful for all crypto aficionado out there.

[Ntaa]

That's a first in football I believe?
A Serie C club (Rimini), Italian 3rd league, will have 25% of its shares sold in the form of a cryptocurrency transaction, following partnership with Quantocoin. Never heard about this Quantacoin before but a look on their website https://quantocoin.io and it looks quite promising.

Not the first actually. There are already facts about selling tickets (for crypto) to the football matches with help of blockchain and some other examples around football especially.
It looks mostly not like something good for crypto community but rather for a 3rd league football team as it will bring more attention to them because of crypto hype.

I agree with you. Previously there were also football clubs that partnership with cryptocurrency. like the Arsenal club that partnership with the US cryptocurrency CashBet.
if you want to read : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/24/arsenal-seals-major-sports-first-cryptocurrency-sponsorship-deal
I think this can be mutually beneficial for both parties.

[shield132]

Really ?. If this information is true I think it's very good news for holder Crypto. It show us the recognition for Crypto in Italy.
I hope the government in other countries will completely make laws and accept Crypto.

Yes, this information is true, can't you see that it's published by sky news?
At first I thought this deal was done for club which plays on Serie A but seems they are in Serie C. I think it's first for not only italians but in whole football (soccer for americans) history. To be fair I don't like this, despite the fact that bitcoin is innovative, I don't like to see such a big deals happened by bitcoin, it's more nice (for me) to keep low number of users but everything good is abused by people as time goes.
Congrats everyone who are happy with this news.

[reactorjuno]

This is money laundering. It does not make any sense this operation with an unknown project that is still in the ICO. And football always attracts companies interested in laundering money. The people listed on the site are totally unknown to the crypto world. They have never done anything relevant related to Bitcoin.

But it seems they are getting a great media about it.

While posting the original post, I cannot deny this crossed my mind as well that it could be money laundering, Italy have a big history about that (see sports betting with fixed football matches in smaller leagues, happened on a regular basis in the last ten years).

[Phan Long]

This is a support, as many investors contribute and build Bitcoin, Bitcoin prices will definitely come back. This is what is expected of the Bitcoin holders. Blockchain technology is developed in parallel with modern technology, which will make the virtual currency more valuable in the future.

[Thundermike]

Now with electronic money you can buy goods and services and review aggregate assets. And in this case I really do not understand in which payment penny is released. Both links seem to use the term 'electronic money' without explaining what it is. It's also sweet that their tokens are built on the Waves, not the erc-20. So far this project is in its infantry, and all we can do is watch.

[larrylegend33]

Very very good news. Today i got up and start to read crypto news. There were many and i felt so happy for it. So we can say the bitcoin and cryptocurrency went into the sports in Europe! I am sure there will be more clubs will say that they will go with crypto money.. I also heard about in the NBA, Sacramento Kings and the Golden State Warriors are going to work with cryptos in the new season in October.

[Winifred2609]

As a result of mass acceptance, if a football club can be bought with electronic money then you need to understand the fact that this is expected to happen very soon. This is really great news for us. And this is a good thing as more and more companies and organizations are opening up to receive payment by password. Italy is one of the pioneers in adopting electronic money. Perhaps one day we will see the use of it in other sports as well as sports betting. I like what happens when bitcoin starts to spread more and more with each and every day and month and news like this is great. There are many other interesting news like this in recent days and these things are getting better and better. There are places in Italy that accept bitcoin as a trading method and that is the paradise for the encrypted user. Like Alessandro Del Piero, I saw him also helped promote one of the token projects.

[fakegurutu]

Original article (in Italian) > https://sport.sky.it/calcio/lega-pro/2018/08/27/serie-c-rimini-25-per-cento-quote-societa-criptovaluta.html

Reddit thread > https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/9ayfuj/25_of_italian_football_club_bought_with_crypto/

That's a first in football I believe?
A Serie C club (Rimini), Italian 3rd league, will have 25% of its shares sold in the form of a cryptocurrency transaction, following partnership with Quantocoin. Never heard about this Quantacoin before but a look on their website https://quantocoin.io and it looks quite promising.

Events like this will pump up the value of any coins that are being bought and this time, it was bitcoin. With more clubs or any sports club out there that will engage themselves in cryptocurrency will boost the current bloody market into a green one. Hope theres more to come like this news.

[qiman]

It looks like big whales now own a lot of cryptocurrency so now they can purchase anything they like with it including foodball clubs. This is how mainstream crypto will get eventually. When you see this kind of thing happening, you know that slowly slowly it is being widely accepted and becoming more the norm and not something a few basement nerds are mining in their basements. We have come a long way in ten years and this will seem very normal behavior in a few years.