Local Businesses Accept Bitcoin Ahead of Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl
One of the hot news items this year has been the St. Petersburg Bowl football game, and it's new game title sponsor, BitPay. The Atlanta-based bitcoin payments processor announced today that over one hundred businesses in the St. Petersburg, Florida area will begin accepting bitcoin ahead of the game, slated to take place on the 26th of December at Tropicana Field. Examples of businesses that are taking part in the mass acceptance (of sorts) include: Green Bench Brewing, Craftsman House and Gallery, the St. Petersburg Museum of History, The Ale and the Witch, Acropolis Greek Taverna,....
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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.....
The Bitcoin St Petersburg Bowl may have given bitcoin a visibility boost on primetime TV, but according to local merchants who participated in its promotion, this attention didn't always translate into an increase in local sales or customer interest. As part of our Bitcoin Bowl coverage, CoinDesk surveyed more than 20 St Petersburg merchants about their experience supporting the event, though more were approached for comment. BitPay had said that more than 100 businesses in total signed up to accept bitcoin for the big game. The poll sought information about the total sales recorded by....
Today, BitPay's Tony Gallippi posted to the BitPay blog with exciting news: "Get Read for the Bitcoin Bowl." The St. Petersburg "Bitcoin Bowl" will take place on December 26th at 8:00 PM at the sunny Tropicana Field in eponymous St. Petersburg, Florida. People around the world can now purchase pre-sale tickets for the Bitcoin Bowl at Stpetersburgbowl.com, the official website of the Bitcoin Bowl. Gallippi explained: The ticket pre-sale is exclusive to bitcoin purchases, giving the bitcoin community a two week head-start to get the best seats in the house before tickets are available....
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....
Although pop culture outlets often associate cryptocurrency with computer geeks, Bitcoin and Dogecoin have each made inroads into the athletic community. This year, both the NBA's Sacramento Kings and the MLS's San Jose Earthquakes have announced plans to accept Bitcoin payments. For its part, Dogecoin has sponsored both the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team and NASCAR driver Josh Wise. Now, Bitcoin will make its way into a new sport-college football-via the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl to Be First College Football Game Sponsored by Cryptocurrency. While most of the....