Inside the ‘Bitcoin club’ targeting the Premier League – and where it leaves their neighbours

“The champagne flowed in the home dressing room as the players of Real Bedford celebrated a third consecutive league title under manager Rob Sinclair and promotion at the end of last season. But it was the tall identical twins spraying the bubbly who drew the focus. ‘Wink-le-voss! Wink-le-voss!’ came the chant from the players who had just secured elevation into the seventh tier of English football. The billionaire entrepreneur twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss — who fought a legal battle with Mark Zuckerberg over who actually conceived the idea of Facebook and invested their subsequent $65million (£49.6m) payoff in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin — had been unaware of English football’s unique non-League structure, from the Premier League to regional feeder leagues, when first approached by Bitcoin podcaster Peter McCormack over a potential investment in the club from his hometown of Bedford, around 50 miles north of London. …”
NY Times/The Athletic (Video)
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