BitPay Partners With Trucoin to Bring Bitcoin ATMs to Bowl Game
BitPay has confirmed there will be at least five bitcoin ATMs installed either at or around Tropicana Field for the upcoming Bitcoin St Petersburg Bowl to be held this December. Trucoin will debut a custom bitcoin ATM solution and serve as the "preferred provider" of bitcoin ATMs for the event. The Georgia-based bitcoin brokerage indicated it would showcase five units manufactured by Genmega (which also supplies ATM hardware to Genesis Coin) and retooled with the company's custom software and compliance features. Trucoin co-founder and president Chris Brunner stressed that Trucoin still....
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Trucoin ATMs will be more visible soon. This past June, BitPay landed an NCAA bowl game sponsorship with ESPN. Labeling the 2014 St. Petersburg game as 'the Bitcoin Bowl' for the next four years, the company announced today that Trucoin is the official bitcoin ATM provider for the event. "Trucoin's sponsorship will facilitate the purchase of many Bowl fans' first bitcoin. With so many merchants in St. Pete now accepting digital currency, these game attendees will be able to experience bitcoin shopping firsthand." The bowl game pits two teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference and the....
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....
Atlanta, Georgia-based bitcoin payment processor BitPay has set their sights on St. Petersburg, Florida. The city of about 250,000 residents could very well become the States' next hot spot for bitcoin activity, and it all seemed to start with a football game. Back in June, BitPay announced that they have become the new game title sponsor for the St. Petersburg bowl, a postseason game that airs on national television. Since then, the company has been working to make the Bitcoin Bowl name work for them, attempting to piece together an ecosystem in which people can put their bitcoin to use.....
Weeks after the surprise announcement that it would drop bitcoin from the title of its St Petersburg Bowl, ESPN remains tight-lipped regarding its "mutual decision" with former St Petersburg Bowl sponsor BitPay to cut short its support for the event. Though somewhat cryptic in its original response, an ESPN spokesperson has confirmed that "BitPay is no longer the sponsor" for the game, and that this year's version is likely to bear the generic title the St Petersburg Bowl. BitPay, which offers bitcoin payment processing services, signed a three-year deal to provide financial support for....
Merchant bitcoin payments processor BitPay has announced that it will sponsor the St. Petersburg Bowl, an annual college postseason football game sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), through 2016. This year's game will kick off at Tropicana Field, home of Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays, on 26th December under a new name. The bowl was previously sponsored by chain restaurant Beef 'O' Brady's and USB provider magicJack. Thanks to BitPay sponsorship, however, the bowl will now be known as the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl. BitPay hopes the sponsorship will....