How 2021 Became The Year Of Baseball’s First Bitcoin Team
The Perth Heat’s chief executive recalls how he and the team’s chief bitcoin officer put their baseball team on a Bitcoin standard in 2021.“What are we missing?” is the question that Patrick O’Sullivan, our Perth Heat chief bitcoin officer (CBO), and I asked ourselves the most during 2021.As the chief executive of the Perth Heat, Patrick and I orange pilled the organization and worked toward operating on a Bitcoin standard, but we kept falling on the same step. “What are we missing, and why hasn’t another sports team already done this?” we wondered time and again.For Patrick and me,....
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