Bitcoin car will race at the Indianapolis 500

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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