In just a few years, the popularity of cryptocurrency moved beyond a narrow circle of programmers, entrepreneurs, and developers — Bitcoin received wide public attention.
Among the people who believed in the success of digital money were sports, movies, and show business stars. Celebrities even started to create their own tokens. Switchere prepared a list of celebrities who supported cryptocurrency and served as a model for their fans. Let’s get started!
Snoop
Dogg
Rapper Snoop Dogg and Seattle
Seahawks team player Richard Sherman were the first ones who believed in Bitcoin’s
success. In 2015, Snoop Dogg even released an album that sold for US dollars
and bitcoins.
At that time, it was possible
to purchase a mix tape for 0.3 BTC. Today, its cost would be about $3340. How
many copies were sold — is still unknown.
Later, the rapper supported
the Ripple cryptocurrency community, which is the third largest crypto by
market capitalization.
Richard
Sherman
American football star Richard Sherman started to invest in Bitcoin at an early stage of the coin’s development. Although Richard’s inner circle didn’t support the athlete’s confidence in the future of BTC, he became a big fan of Bitcoin, altcoins, and blockchain technology in general. The list of cryptocurrencies that the player is interested in included Litecoin and Ethereum. Sherman chose not to invest in shitcoins.
Mike
Tyson
Mike Tyson went even further.
In 2015, the absolute world heavyweight champion announced the release of his
own network of bitcoin ATMs. For six months, the boxer implemented his idea as
well as launched a mobile application for trading.
Hugh
Laurie
British actor Hugh Laurie
limited himself to buying cryptocurrencies. The comedian found out what Bitcoin
is from a friend. That is, in 2015, on his advice, Laurie invested in the cryptocurrency,
when the price of BTC was around $5,000.
Pop
Stars
Recently, show business stars are about to receive rewards for performing in bitcoins. Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, and Lady Gaga were the ‘pioneers’ in this sense.
Gwyneth
Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow is another cryptocurrency fan. The American movie and television actress became the face of the Abra wallet and works as a vice-general manager of this company. Judging by her posts on Twitter, Gwyneth is serious about studying Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
Steve
Wozniak
The famous founder of Apple
Computers Steve Wozniak is also interested in the IT trend. An electronic
engineer said that in the early stages of the very first cryptocurrency’s development,
he didn’t manage to buy bitcoin. Moreover, when he finally purchased the
desired coins, their rate fell sharply.
However, Steve wasn’t disappointed in BTC and called it the most stable currency on the market. Nevertheless, the programmer admitted that he is only interested in the mathematical component of digital money, and not in the earning prospects.
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