Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers stated he’d “love to request” a cryptocurrency payment in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Solana.
Tom Brady, the quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and a seven-time Super Bowl winner, has expressed interest in getting some of his income in cryptocurrencies.
Brady remarked on a SiriusXM show earlier this week, “I’d love to request that to get paid in some crypto and, you know, to get paid in some Bitcoin or Ethereum or Solana tokens.”
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— Tom Brady (@TomBrady) September 21, 2021“I think it’s an amazing thing that’s happening in the world with the way the world is becoming more digital. And these digital currencies, along with a lot of, if you look how the way the world is going, with all these different digital mediums and how they’re impacting currencies,” Brady added.
This isn’t Brady’s first trip into the Bitcoin world. He and his wife Gisele Bündchen invested in FTX, a crypto exchange run by Sam Bankman-Fried, in June.
“It’s an incredibly exciting time in the crypto world and Sam and the revolutionary FTX team continue to open my eyes to the endless possibilities,” Brady said at the time.
In the crypto business, the exchange operator’s association with Solana is well-known.
Bankman-Fried offered a trader who was bearish on Solana $3 per token to buy out all of his Solana tokens in January of this year. Although the trader declined Bankman-offer, Fried’s the FTX CEO remained optimistic about the Solana project.
“Think of me basically as a fanboy. I think it’s a really cool product,” Bankman-Fried said in August, adding that “of the currently existing blockchains, it is maybe the only one, or at least one of the very few, which is being built in a way that it has a really plausible chance of eventually being able to host gigantic applications.”
Brady is hardly the only NFL player to have expressed interest in cryptocurrency in recent months.
Russell Okung, an offensive tackle for the Carolina Panthers, began converting half of his NFL salary into Bitcoin in December of last year, according to his Twitter account.
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Sean Culkin said in April this year that he will sell his NFL salary for bitcoin, following in his footsteps.
Franchises from the National Football League are also getting in on the action. Earlier this month, the New York Football Giants announced a collaboration with cryptocurrency asset management firm Grayscale.
