Bitcoin car will race at the Indianapolis 500
“This isn’t the Strike car, the Coinbase car, the Kraken car [...] this is the Bitcoin car,” said Jack Mallers. A car and driver branded with the Bitcoin logo will be racing in circles against 32 others in this month’s Indianapolis 500.According to a blog post from Zap CEO Jack Mallers, U.S. racing driver Ed Carpenter will be in control of the “orange-spotted, Bitcoin-covered, engineering beast” scheduled to appear at the Indy 500 on May 30. Carpenter, who became a Bitcoiner over the last year, reportedly forfeited all traditional sponsors in favor of driving the Bitcoin (BTC) car, #21 in....
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Photo by Tom Wilmoth. The Dogecoin community leveraged its vibrant online community to vote little-known NASCAR driver Josh Wise into the sport's All-Star race. Unfortunately, this online support did not have a comparable on-the-ground counterpart. Dogecoin Votes Josh Wise into NASCAR All-Star Race. NASCAR is an expensive sport, so it is dominated by drivers who belong to wealthy teams like Hendrick Motorsports and Joe Gibbs Racing, who can command as much as $400,000 in sponsorship for one race. Josh Wise drives for Phil Parsons Racing, a small, independent team which struggles to get....
The Great Pacific Race 2014 is the world's first rowing race across the Pacific Ocean. Teams of one, two, and four will compete in a journey to row across the Pacific Ocean from Monterey, California to Honolulu, Hawaii. The race is expected to take anywhere from 30 to 90 days based on crew size in the boats. The racer's boats are only powered by muscle without any help from sails or engines. Ultracoin and Bitcoin Woman Magazine are pairing up to sponsor racerElsa Hammond for the race that will last up to three months. Ultracoin is an Altcoin with a blazing fast transaction time of six....
Yes, I'm fully aware that our M. O. is to cover bitcoin news, but it's the weekend and this is simply too great to look over. By now you've almost certainly heard of dogecoin. If you haven't, it's what's referred to as an "altcoin", or alternative digital currency. And while each dogecoin isn't as valuable as a bitcoin, the currency has an awesome, friendly community behind it. Which is why they decided to start a fundraiser to sponsor a NASCAR race car driver, Josh Wise, at the Talladega Superspeedway after a dogecoin user, Denis Pavel, noticed Wise's car was unsponsored. The community....