Das professionelle NBA-Team – die Sacramento Kings – und das Blockchain-Unternehmen, das Cloud-Computing-Dienste anbietet – Ankr – haben sich für eine mehrjährige Zusammenarbeit die Hand gegeben. Während des gesamten Engagements werden die beiden Einheiten Bildungsinhalte über den Kryptowährungsraum und die Blockchain-Technologie produzieren.
The new crypto project of the kings
The national basketball association announced this on its website. In addition to educating sports fans about the merits of the digital asset industry by running events and developing various projects, the Sacramento Kings and Ankr will also host an annual event at the Golden 1 Center (home of the sports club) . There it invites students and developers to find out about developments in the crypto space.
Golden 1 Center, NBA
Vivek Ranadivé – Chairman and Owner of the Sacramento Kings – shared his thoughts on the collaboration:
“Sport can be a powerful platform to encourage and encourage innovation. We are proud to work with Ankr to further align our synergies with future-oriented initiatives and to offer fans educational opportunities about the crypto economy. “
For his part, Chandler Song praised the NBA team’s desire to look forward to new technology, which raised hopes that the initiative would “open many new doors for both sports fans and the crypto community:”
“We have visited the Kings crypto mining data center at their facilities many times and I admire the owner Vivek’s openness to adopting new technology. We are aligned with this mission to promote the use of Web 3 technologies. “
Speaking of Ankr, it is a software platform and a decentralized infrastructure provider. It was founded in 2017 and focuses on the growth of Web3 – the third generation of internet services for websites and applications. Ankr’s protocol also supports over 50 proof-of-work chains.
Salaries in crypto for the players
The Sacramento Kings – one of the basketball teams that won the NBA – have shown a pro-crypto stance for years. In 2014, it allowed fans to purchase tickets and merchandise using Bitcoin.
In April of this year, Chairman Ranadivé announced a further step towards the further introduction of digital assets. He said that all employees in the organization could choose to receive their salaries in Bitcoin instead of dollars:
“I’m going to offer something to everyone in the Kings organization; They can get as much of their Bitcoin salary as they want, including the players. “
The Dallas Mavericks are another NBA team that accepts payments for digital assets. In addition to Bitcoin, Mark Cuban’s club also allows Bitcoin Cash settlement. Ethereum, Dogecoin and more.
Selected image courtesy of Bleacher Report
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