Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl Is Now a Thing
BitPay has announced it will sponser the St. Petersburg Bowl, resulting in the, true story, Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl. To echo (quote?) BiSB, yes, the NCAA now has a bowl sponsered by 'money'. I don't even care about the bowl sponsers as much as some who still refer to the Cap One Bowl as the Citrus Bowl, but man, my first thought was "LOLOLOLOLOLOL". Man, the bowl system is awesome.
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when I spend a dollar, it's relative increase or decrease in value over time has very little to do with my spending decision. Bitcoins' incredible valuation fluctuation makes spending them entirely dependent on whether you think the value will rise or fall. If you want to speculate and buy bitcoins (then cash them in for dollars or yen or something) then go for it, but how are they valuable as currency?
As far as I understand bitcoins are valuable as far as people give them value and as the algorithms to figure out to be rewarded with them get thougher and the number of available bitcoins to mine is decreasing I'd say they'll remain valuable.
They're a good way to launder money. Therefore: valuable!
I thought that whole 'market' crashed hard this year
1BTC = $600 USD right now.
After topping out at over $1100 it dropped sharply to almost $500 but has since gained momentum. At one point the Winklevoss twins (facebook) owned around half of the bitcoins produced. They created a bitcoin exchange and are currently trying to get that exchange listed on the NASDAQ. The Feds and other powers to be are concerned because bitcoin trades have no transparancy. Therefore, as stated in some following posts, money can be laundered. I for one am interested in seeing how all this will play out.
A bit coin miner! So, many servers to crunch numbers. You almost have to turn your home into a meat locker to keep the servers from over heating!
So unless you are in the above or some other shady black market stick to cash.
The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino Boardwalk Bowl in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Delaware St beat NC Central 31-13 and the game had significance as it one of the first played indoors but what I find more than a bit amazing is the respective helmets of the two teams. Sure look like they are from a game played around here in November!
That 1969 Boardwalk Bowl actually was won by the University of Delaware, not to be confused with Delaware State, the school that had to forfeit a game against North Carolina A&T, so that they could visit The Big House on October 17, 2009. Delaware was coached that season by Tubby Raymond, the Michigan alum who'd played football for Fritz Crisler and whose son David became the original Phillie Phanatic.
That 1969 Boardwalk Bowl also shouldn't obscure one of the other minor bowl games of that year -- the 1969 Pasadena Bowl in which San Diego State beat Boston University 28-7 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
San Diego State was led by Dennis Shaw, its record-setting quarterback who was drafted in the scond round of the 1970 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills who'd taken Al Cowlings with their first round pick that year. (Cowlings went on to gain fame as the driver of O. J. Simpson's white Ford Bronco in the "Car Chase of the Century" on June 17, 1994.) Shaw became the NFL's Offensive Rookie of the Year in 1970.
Boston University no longer has a football team, but its 1969 team included a player who was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the first round of the 1970 draft and became the NFL's Defensive Rookie of the Year in 1970, Bruce Taylor.
missing out here
...a scam fiat currency is, it's actually kind of surprising that the Fed doesn't sponsor a "Dollar Bowl"...guess they've already got enough propaganda though.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!
/must resist urge to make potentially spidery Alex Jones jokes.
This still gives me hope that, before my days on the Earth are over, there will be a One Hour Martinizing Bowl and it will be for the top-seeded 4-8 teams in the MAC and Sun Belt or something along those lines. If nothing else, they would have the cleanest uniforms in the pantheon of bowl games, and they would have them clean for the second half before halftime was over.
Side trips to Helsinki, Tallinn, and Riga would be awesome before or after the game.
I thought bitcoin was a "thing" and not a company. So how is bitcoin a sponsor?
Bitpay is a bitcoin exchange.
Oh man.. I can't wait for the Dogecoin Bowl. Imagine the 50 yard line opportunities.
Edit: oops, wrong thread...
So does this mean like half the bowl game is going to just vanish into thin air one day?
the bowl game might as well be sponsored by the ACLs of Purdue football players.