Bitcoin Bowl College Football Game Brings Digital Currency Workshops to Madeira Beach
BitPay, a leading bitcoin payment processing company, recently partnered with ESPN to sponsor the 2014 St. Petersburg Bowl, also known as the Bitcoin Bowl. The post-season college football game pits one Atlantic Coast Conference team against another from the American Athletic Conference, two highly popular conferences both with enormous American fanbases. Also Read: BitPay Plans to Have "One Million Merchants Taking Bitcoin by the end of 2016". But two days before the Bitcoin Bowl is underway on Dec. 26, both teams get an afternoon on the Madeira Beach, Florida, to soak in the sun and....
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ESPN Events has announced that Atlanta, Georgia-based BitPay will serve as the new title sponsor of the annual St. Petersburg Bowl - an NCAA-sanctioned post-season college football game that has been taking place since 2008. BitPay, renowned for its business of allowing merchants to easily accept bitcoin payments and convert them instantly to local currency, will have the game known as the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl beginning with this year's game, slated to be held on the 26th of December at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. "Our goal is to continue to move bitcoin into the....
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