Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is giving away one bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) to a fan who returned his 600th touchdown ball.
What Happened: Byron Kennedy, 29, a Buccaneers fan, would also receive a package from the team that includes season tickets and autographed memorabilia, as per a CBS report.
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Brady joked on television that Kennedy “lost all of his leverage once he gave the ball away.”
“He lost all of his leverage once he gave the ball away.”@TomBrady got his 600th TD ball back. It'll cost him some bitcoin ESPN2 pic.twitter.com/wsY0IH7xKs
— NFL (@NFL) October 26, 2021
The football star also joked that the returned ball could be turned into a non-fungible token (NFT.)
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Why It Matters: For those wondering how much is one bitcoin, it was worth $62,628.45 at press time. The apex cryptocurrency was trading 6.38% below the $66,930.39 mark it touched last week.
Last month, the seven-time Super Bowl champion Brady said that he would “love to be paid” in cryptocurrency while speaking with Jim Gray on a Sirius XM podcast.
“I’d love to get paid in some Bitcoin or Ethereum or Solana tokens. I think it’s an amazing thing that’s happening in the world with the way the world is becoming more digital.”
Brady and Bitcoin go a long way, In June, he and his wife supermodel Gisele Bündchen took an equity stake in cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
Hey @FTX_Official, let’s make a trade...Let’s get this guy a Bitcoin https://t.co/emBFE1Lyr7
— Tom Brady (@TomBrady) October 25, 2021
Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX said “They were both really into it” after they invested.
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