{"id":14638,"date":"2021-11-23T22:54:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T22:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/nfl-football-star-odell-beckham-jr-giving-away-1-million-in-bitcoin-and-will-take-his-new-salary-in-btc\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T22:54:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T22:54:06","slug":"nfl-football-star-odell-beckham-jr-giving-away-1-million-in-bitcoin-and-will-take-his-new-salary-in-btc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/nfl-football-star-odell-beckham-jr-giving-away-1-million-in-bitcoin-and-will-take-his-new-salary-in-btc\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Football Star Odell Beckham Jr Giving Away $1 Million in Bitcoin and Will Take His New Salary in BTC"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. football Star Odell Beckham Jr. is taking his new salary in bitcoin and is giving away $1 million in the cryptocurrency in partnership with Square\u2019s Cash App. \u201cTo all my fans out there \u2026 I\u2019m giving back a total of $1M in BTC<\/a> right now,\u201d he wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Football Star Odell Beckham Jr. Will Take His New Salary in Bitcoin and Is Giving Away $1 Million in the Crypto<\/h2>\n

Odell Beckham Jr., also known as OBJ, announced<\/a> via Twitter Monday that he is taking his new salary in bitcoin via Square\u2019s Cash App. He also told his 4.1 million Twitter followers that he is giving away $1 million in bitcoin.<\/p>\n

OBJ is an American football wide receiver for the American National Football League (NFL)\u2019s Los Angeles Rams. He signed a one-year deal with the Rams two weeks ago after the Cleveland Browns released him. According to reports, his contract comes with a base salary of $750,000 and a $500,000 signing bonus, with another $3 million available to earn in the form of team-based incentives.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

At the time of writing, some people on Twitter have posted screenshots of them receiving bitcoin from Odell Beckham Jr. Most people received about $20 in BTC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last month, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers also said that he is taking a portion of his salary in bitcoin. In addition, he also gave away $1 million<\/a> in BTC<\/a> to his fans in collaboration with Cash App.<\/p>\n

Cash App also partnered with American rapper and hip hop artist Megan Thee Stallion<\/a> to give away $1 million in bitcoin on Twitter in December last year.<\/p>\n

A growing number of professional athletes are asking to be paid in bitcoin, including Russell Okung<\/a>, Tom Brady<\/a>, Saquon Barkley<\/a>, and Sean Culkin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last week, the Perth Heat, a major baseball team in the Australian Baseball League, announced that it will operate on a bitcoin standard. The team said<\/a>: \u201cPerth Heat will pay players in bitcoin, pay staff in bitcoin, accept bitcoin payments for sponsorships, merchandise, and ballpark concessions, [and] hodl bitcoin on the club\u2019s balance sheet.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think about Odell Beckham Jr. getting paid in bitcoin via Cash App and giving away $1 million in BTC<\/a>? Let us know in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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U.S. football Star Odell Beckham Jr. is taking his new salary in bitcoin and is giving away $1 million in the cryptocurrency in partnership with Square\u2019s Cash App. \u201cTo all my fans out there \u2026 I\u2019m giving back a total of $1M in BTC right now,\u201d he wrote. Football Star Odell Beckham Jr. Will Take…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain-news","category-coin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}