Kenyan Athlete and Olympic Champion Eliud Kipchoge Gets $40K in ETH After Auc...
Kenyan athlete and world record holder, Eliud Kipchoge recently auctioned off his first set of NFTs for a total of 17.9837 ethereum tokens. The auction, which was conducted on the NFT marketplace Opensea, includes some of the key moments in Kipchoge’s career. According to a report, one of these moments, Kipchoge’s 2019 record-breaking run in Vienna fetched $14.8837 ETH while the marathoner’s Berlin Marathon run earned him 3.1 ETH or for over $6,500 at current prices. Meanwhile, in a Twitter post, Kipchoge, who is also an Olympic Champion, said he was grateful that some....
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The International Olympics Committee connects with the Winter Games via blockchain by trading NFT pins and playing a P2E mobile game. Olympic Games Jam: Beijing 2022 is the Winter Olympic's official play-to-earn multiplayer mobile game, created in collaboration between Animoca Brands-owned nWayPlay game studio and the International Olympics Committee. Currently, the app is only available for Android phones on the Google Play store, with no official release date for iOS devices yet. In the Olympian spirit, Cointelegraph played the newly launched game and reviewed the experience.Olympic....
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While the Olympic Games are the world’s premier showcase for athletes to display their skills, a star of an entirely different kind is also grabbing the spotlight in Beijing – the e-CNY, or electronic yuan. And, so far, it looks as if the world’s first digital currency issued by the central bank of a major economy is set to take the top spot on the podium. On the opening day of the 2022 Winter Olympics, significantly more transactions were reportedly made with China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) than through Visa, which has traditionally been the champion at such events, according....