{"id":144471,"date":"2020-12-31T00:47:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T21:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nfl-player-russell-okung-isnt-getting-paid-in-bitcoin-this-is-what-hes-doing-instead\/"},"modified":"2020-12-31T00:47:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T21:47:03","slug":"nfl-player-russell-okung-isnt-getting-paid-in-bitcoin-this-is-what-hes-doing-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nfl-player-russell-okung-isnt-getting-paid-in-bitcoin-this-is-what-hes-doing-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"# NFL player Russell Okung isn\u2019t getting paid in Bitcoin; this is what he\u2019s doing instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># NFL player Russell Okung isn\u2019t getting paid in Bitcoin; this is what he\u2019s doing instead  <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjAtMTIvZTMwMDU4NGYtNjQ0My00YWI3LTgwMjYtNWIxNTI1NTZkYzI3LmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-5a136f3a>National Football League player Russell Okung is a strong proponent of Bitcoin (BTC). And while he may be converting a portion of his salary into BTC, his employer, the Carolina Panthers, isn\u2019t paying him in virtual currency \u2014 although a few excitable crypto-focused publications were foxed by the story.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from the Carolina Panthers confirmed to Cointelegraph that Okung, like the rest of his teammates, is paid in dollars only. What he chooses to do with the money is his business, the spokesperson said. In other words, the player doesn&#8217;t have any agreement with the team to receive compensation in the form of BTC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Offensive tackle Okung is currently in the final year of a four-year contract and will earn $13 million this year, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/russell-okung-6515\/\">according<\/a> to Spotrac.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NFL player is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/panthers-russell-okung-becomes-first-nfl-player-to-be-paid-in-bitcoin\/\">reportedly<\/a> using a crypto startup called Strike to convert some of his earnings into Bitcoin. A beta version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lication, which claims to allow users to \u201csend money instantly, with no fees, anywhere in the world,\u201d is available for iOS, Android and Chrome. <\/p>\n<p>Okung may have contributed to the confusion in a recent tweet <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RussellOkung\/status\/1343923267019698177\">proclaiming<\/a> that he is being \u201cPaid in Bitcoin.\u201d The tweet was a response to a post from May 2019 when he first expressed his desire to get paid in BTC.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Paid in Bitcoin. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ey6oOcmLjA\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ey6oOcmLjA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 russ (@RussellOkung) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RussellOkung\/status\/1343923267019698177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>The NFL star has amassed a large following on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> due to his celebrity status and Bitcoin evangelism. His Twitter headline reads, \u201clife liberty, and #bitcoin.\u201d His followers include Michael Saylor and Anthony Pompliano, among other crypto proponents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His recent tweets promote the idea of buying Bitcoin and educating citizens on the impact of inflation on the buying power of the U.S. dollar.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You can make \u201cx\u201d a year and watch it slowly erode with inflation or you can protect your hard earned money with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bitcoin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 russ (@RussellOkung) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RussellOkung\/status\/1344078577780858880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"markets_outlook\"><\/template><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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And while he may be converting a portion of his salary into BTC, his employer, the Carolina Panthers, isn\u2019t paying him in virtual currency \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2020-12\/e300584f-6443-4ab7-8026-5b152556dc27.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74862,76276,74937,74355],"class_list":["post-144471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin-payments","tag-bitcoin-price","tag-adoption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}