Winklevoss twins become co-owners of Bitcoin soccer club, inject $4.5M BTC

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss person joined arsenic co-owners of Bitcoin podcaster Peter McCormack’s Real Bedford Football Club (RBFC), aft investing $4.5 cardinal worthy of Bitcoin (BTC) to bolster the club's goals.

The Winklevoss twins executed the concern and acquisition done their concern firm, Winklevoss Capital, arsenic per a caller statement. 

The backing volition beryllium utilized to found a Bitcoin treasury for the club, arsenic McCormack told Cointelegraph, it is to safeguard the nine "against agelong word fiat debasement."

"The concern helps with the infrastructure, we request to turn this with our ambitions," McCormack explained.

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Additionally, the funds volition beryllium allocated towards the improvement of a caller grooming halfway and ongoing enactment for girls' and younker football.

In 2021, McCormack acquired RBFC, his hometown shot nine successful Bedford, with its colonisation conscionable nether 200,000.

He holds ambitions of bringing RBFC — which accepts Bitcoin for crippled time tickets, merchandise, sponsorships, and beverages — to vie successful the aforesaid league arsenic well-known United Kingdom clubs similar Manchester United and Chelsea Football Club.

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“We are a agelong mode from the Premier League arsenic breathtaking arsenic that is our ambition, I enactment connected 1 league astatine a time,” McCormack stated.

The Winklevoss twins stock the aforesaid imaginativeness arsenic McCormack of bringing RBFC to the apical league successful the United Kingdom.

“We’re not conscionable investing successful a shot club, we’re investing successful a imagination to bring Premier League shot to Bedford,” Cameron Winklevoss said.

“We stock successful Peter’s heavy condemnation successful Bitcoin and its quality to supercharge RBFC’s quest to marque it into the Premier League,” Tyler Winklevoss added.

This comes aft it was precocious reported that the Winklevoss twins donated $4.9 cardinal to the crypto-focused Fairshake ace governmental enactment committee (PAC) to enactment crypto-friendly candidates successful the upcoming United States elections.

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