First: David Paral is the first football player to buy only Bitcoin football

The 37-year-old has officially signed to Segunda B club DUX Internacional de Madrid this week, in a fully funded deal through the use of Bitcoin, the digital or virtual currency that uses peer-to-peer technology to enable instant payments. To manufacture.

The club has yet to reveal the total value of the deal, but a move to Paral was “possible” by the Spanish club’s sponsor, Kriptan.

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Criptan is a local platform for buying and selling cryptocurrency and reports Cryptoventure. In a social media post, Internacional welcomed the veteran striker and immediately thanked its sponsor. “David Paral, our new player from DUX Internacional de Madrid, welcome to this great team!” Club Books. “It will be the first purchase in history Digital currencies. Thanks to Kriptan, our new sponsor, who made this possible. “

He wrote on his official Twitter page: “I am delighted to be part of the @ interdemadrid project with my ambition and I realize my responsibility to continue competing and face important challenges in my sports career.”

In December, Russell Okong of the Carolina Panthers became the first high-profile athlete in the United States to be paid in bitcoin.

Okong, who would take exactly half of his NFL salary in cryptocurrency, encouraged other professional sports stars to do the same. “Money is more than currency,” Okung said in a statement. “The way money is handled, from creation to distribution, is part of that power. Getting paid in bitcoin is the first step out of the corrupt and manipulative economy we all live in. ‘

The NFL also contradicts that it gets paid in cryptocurrencies. It is simply paid in US dollars. He has people converting money into Bitcoin. “