The thing is the recent sports men we have now are not like former athletes who you will see neglect the culture of investing, the athletes now have picked up the ball idea of investing just to have a financial stable retirement not like their predecessors who most at times ends up with nothing later.

Am I surprised about the inclination to bitcoin? I will say No because with all that bitcoin possess it will be hard for someone to have a research on it and not pick interest. I even feel like there are more athletes that have invested in this Bitcoin anonymously than they speak about.

It’s a good move by Moicano to have treated this as a currency, hopefully he might get his request granted or even go ahead to purchase it himself. $300k worth of bitcoin now is equivalent to almost 5 bitcoin, with the much anticipated bull run if he holds for long might see a 2x return of that amount

It is his gain really. Bitcoin is so big now that making announcements like this helps the celebrity more than it does the network. This tweet will get him more interactions on his social media than his previous posts and if his request is granted he will get an easy buy in to thousands of Bitcoin without hassling about where to buy them from. But he should get charged for the commissions needed to convert from fiat to BTC.

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I think people are gradually beginning to understand what Bitcoin is capable of and it's benefits, also the bitcoin halving have been preached over and over by crypto influencer on the media and based on the benefits that comes with it, i think a lot of people are beginning to buy the idea of investing in it currently before the main halving event starts. And based on the current dip, celebrities, business men, industries would see this as an opportunity to acquire as much Bitcoin as they can to prepare for the halving. Michael Saylor has shown as an example. In one of his interview i came across, he mentioned that he'll buy more Bitcoin instead of selling, which is a very good decision for those who hodl Bitcoin as a long term investment. Although i know that some people out of fear would begin to sell their coins because of the dip, instead of buying more.

That's another great news, but let me confirm you that this is not the first second, or the third fighter asking for a bonus, as I have had a good time here reading a lot of topics, and I saw somewhere some female fighters also demanded funds in the form of BTC, in search of that topic I found many other articles as well which tells us how many fighters have shown interest in BTC. And I will be more glad about them because they adopted it soon as currently, they will be making 2x or 3x already. But that depends on there Buying price.

I still hope this dude will also make some good returns from his investment in BTC, besides I think there must be some taxation thing involved here too, like can anyone confirm they have to pay less or more tax in BTC or in Fiat.

• Brazilian UFC fighter Luana Pinheiro who will receive a full salary in BTC.
• UFC fighters Khamzat Chimaev, Alex Volkanovski, and Petr Yan won $30,000 for First Place, $20,000 for Second Place, and $10,000 for Third respectively.
• Top 10 UFC fighter signs Bitcoin payment contract: 'I'm doing it for my future'
• First Female UFC Fighter Will Be Paid in Bitcoin

These all adopted it in around 2022 and now I assume they would be in profits, but I am wondering if they adopted in 2022 then they might have bought high, well, still they be in profit but why they don't buy in bear.

Me too, despite all the hostile groups' efforts to extinguish the light of bitcoins' popularity, you can find some celebrities ignoring them and supporting bitcoins instead. This is a good example of advertisement using your influence and this is how it should be for any celebrities that support bitcoins, they need to give it free advertising to increase its price further. But as we all know most of them won't do it because they want their assets as anonymous as they can to avoid some major problems like taxes or any other issues from their government.

In the best traditions, public figures pay attention to bitcoin only when the price of this crypto asset jumps sharply. This guy is no exception.

He should have asked for a bonus in bitcoin around the end of last year, when BTC was 2 times cheaper. He would have received a bonus of 10 BTC, not ~5 BTC.

Interesting point:
How will all these athletes (and others) who receive a salary (or bonus) in bitcoin pay their taxes?

Just came across the name Renato Moicano for the first time and I had to go check him out and the dude is really vocal about Bitcoin. According to him, after learning about Bitcoin, he no longer keep his money in the bank, this should explain why he requested his bonus to be paid in Bitcoin.

The publicity is really nice for the community, while other crypto projects are paying through their noses to have their shitcoins endorsed by celebrities, Bitcoin is getting a free publicity. What else that needs to be said to convince people that Bitcoin is not a scam?

I don't think he supports Bitcoin, he wants to get his money in Bitcoins because to promote himself. He is a fighter, he won the fight and tweets on X that he wants money in Bitcoins. Media will see that tweet and will publish articles about how UFC Fighter demands his prize to be paid in Bitcoins. If you type that you want 300K bonus in cash or on bank account, no media will write an article about you. That's just my personal opinion but I would also love to say that even if he doesn't support Bitcoin (I think so), it still is good for making Bitcoin popular because there might be some of his fans who will hear word Bitcoin from this tweet and will get interested into it.

For most people, someone who has $2 million is definitely a rich person, not of course like some famous people who have hundreds of millions or even billions. If you would convert that amount into BTC, you would get about 33 BTC at the current price, and I think that 99% of the people on this forum would retire with that amount right away.