Rocker Brings Bitcoin to Mixed Martial Arts Campaign
An unusual Indiegogo campaign will launch on Tuesday, April 21 that brings together the worlds of music, Mixed Martial Arts and bitcoin. OSS Mentality is the brainchild of Brian Byrne, lead singer of the Canadian rock band I Mother Earth and avid MMA practitioner, and Jon Foster, former fighter and current gym owner. The idea of OSS Mentality is to....
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Bellator fighter Mark "Tricky" Dickman likes the bitcoin ATM at One Kick Nick's in Las Vegas. Mixed martial arts students in Las Vegas can now pay for their training in bitcoin if they so choose. They can also buy bitcoin at One Kick Nick's Mixed Martial Arts Gym which now has a bitcoin ATM. The popular Las Vegas gym recently installed a bitcoin ATM to meet the growing interest in bitcoin among the youthful, tech-savvy mixed martial arts community. Bitcoin Direct LLC, an Ann Arbor, Mich. -based company, mounted the General Bytes ATM on a wall in plain view of visitors and students. Patrons....
MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) is a growing sport, so its a big event when one of the biggest ad networks for MMA, MMAadnet, starts to accept Bitcoin. MMAadnet is one of the biggest ad networks, with the current status of working with 300 MMA related websites while serving over 5 Billion impressions. If you would like to know more about what MMAdnet is capable of, here is a little excerpt taken from their website. MMAadnet was formed in 2008 as a way to connect publishers and advertisers in the growing sport of Mixed Martial Arts. MMAadnet has had over 400 registered MMA websites throughout it’s....
Mixed martial arts welterweight Jon Fitch is the first MMA fighter to be fully paid in bitcoin, according to Inverse.com, a culture and technology news site. As an international MMA competitor, he claims he gets paid easier and faster with bitcoin. Fitch loves cryptocurrency and he thinks it is bringing about a new form of commerce he calls "techno-feudalism." A former top welterweight contender for Ultimate Fighting Championship, Fitch said a lot of MMA fighters have difficulty with payment because mixed martial arts is an international sport. It can take weeks to get paid. This is....
Surprising as it may be, Bitcoin’s history mirrors the history of mixed martial arts.
Mixing up bitcoin with gentlemanly entertainment has been a popular idea, judging by the traffic at the recently-opened Legends Club in Las Vegas. To Peter Klamka, a bitcoin entrepreneur, it only seemed a natural location for a bitcoin ATM. But Klamka went a step further. He has branded a bitcoin ATM in the club with one of its strippers. The Legends Room debuted the first adult star branded ATM with its London Keyes Edition Bitcoin two-way ATM. In 2015, Klamka, who operates his ATMs under the company name Bitcoin Direct, LLC, placed a bitcoin ATM in a Las Vegas mixed martial arts studio,....