{"id":24183,"date":"2014-06-21T16:43:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T20:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=24183"},"modified":"2014-06-21T16:43:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T20:43:42","slug":"bitcoin-sponsors-bowl-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/cryptocurrency\/bitcoin-sponsors-bowl-game.php","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin sponsors bowl game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Updated JUN 18, 2014 3:51p ET  <\/p>\n<p>    The mysterious cryptocurrency Bitcoin is now the host of a    real, actual college football bowl game, named the Bitcoin St.    Petersburg Bowl.  <\/p>\n<p>    Indeed Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, not a business or sentient    body: The money for the three-year sponsorship is actually    coming from BitPay, a Bitcoin brokerage startup headquartered    in     Atlanta that provides payment processing for businesses    that accept Bitcoin.  <\/p>\n<p>    The deal betweenESPN Events and BitPay to replace Beef    O'Brady's as the naming sponsor is for three years, from this    season's December 26 game and through 2016.According to    its new conference affiliation, the bowl features one team from    the ACC and an opponent from the American Athletic Conference.  <\/p>\n<p>    Will the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl enjoy a long-running    sponsorship like Tostitos and the Fiesta Bowl for 18 years, or    will it go down as a random, comical footnote, like    theGalleryfurniture.com Bowl (2001), thePoulan Weed    Eater Independence Bowl (a decent six-year from beginning in    1990), or Roady's Truck Stops Humanitarian Bowl (2007-09)?  <\/p>\n<p>    Bitcoin has been quite volatile thus far, so we shall see. As    far as the Bitcoin Bowl player swag bags  it could get weird.      <\/p>\n<p>    [H\/T Deadspin]  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/buzzer\/story\/bitcoin-sponsoring-college-football-bowl-st-petersburg-061814\/RK=0\/RS=tGhM63HXPSJCvXD3PKyxeU5YLCc-\" title=\"Bitcoin sponsors bowl game\">Bitcoin sponsors bowl game<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Updated JUN 18, 2014 3:51p ET The mysterious cryptocurrency Bitcoin is now the host of a real, actual college football bowl game, named the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[869],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}