The Real Deal? Peter McCormack's Bedford Bitcoin Bet scores more than goals
Real Bedford Football Club nets another example of how Bitcoin grassroots adoption benefits the broader community. The Bitcoin Standard has many formations. For some, selling all possessions and living off magic internet money is key; for others, it’s about sweeping every spare penny into Satoshis. For popular podcaster Peter McCormack–an avid football fan–it meant buying his local club and signing Bitcoin (BTC) onto the team sheet. Bitcoin advocate McCormack acquired his hometown football club in December 2021. He renamed and rebranded the club to Real Bedford, and at the ground, Bitcoin....
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The renowned investor is seeking to revolutionize the local club with Bitcoin, as well as aiming to reach the highest tier of British football, the illustrious Premier League. Peter McCormack, a well-regarded Bitcoin investor and advocate, has announced the purchase of local Englishfootball club Bedford FC, divulging ambitions in a fourteen-tweet thread to fuel the club’s prosperous aspirations through the leading cryptocurrency asset, Bitcoin.McCormack said he intends to architecture the club with "Bitcoin at its heart", introducing everything from merchandise and sponsorship....
"Apart from having a good wife, I have everything I need in life, and money is not going to get me more of what I need." For someone who devotes so much of his life to Bitcoin and finance and who has made and lost a small fortune twice now podcaster Peter McCormack doesn’t actually seem to care that much for money.“I did have a lot of money in my life a couple of times,” says the 42 year old on a call from his home in Bedford. “But the wealthiest time of my life was the most miserable. I had a company in London that turned over three million a year. Big team. Money in the bank, good....
Did this UK judge determine that Craig Wright’s reputation was worth 1£? You be the… judge. The “High Court Approved Judgment” reads like a novel. It contains a lot of ins, a lot of outs, and a lot of what-have-yous. It conveniently summarizes everything that happened and what got us and Peter McCormack here. The […]
Move over Heard Vs. Depp, Wright Vs. McCormack is here to command the world’s attention. On one corner, the only man who has the gall to claim he’s Satoshi Nakamoto, Dr. Craig Wright. On the other, host and creator of the What Bitcoin Did podcast, Peter McCormack. The setting is London. According to McCormack’s tweets, […]
“Tether supports Peter McCormack and believes he's in the right,” said Stuart Hoegner. Stuart Hoegner, general counsel for Tether and cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, is pushing back against claims the stablecoin operator has abandoned podcaster Peter McCormack in his lawsuit against Craig Wright, the Australian national claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto.In an Oct. 24 tweet from Hoegner, the general counsel called a recent article from crypto media platform Coingeek which stated Tether had pulled funding from McCormack in his legal battle against Wright “a lie.” Coingeek is owned by Calvin....