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Viral Canadian rapper Drake made waves past week erstwhile he placed implicit $1.26 cardinal of BTC successful bets for Super Bowl LVI, taking to Instagram to show the satellite his gamble connected the Bitcoin casino and sports betting platform, Stake.
Drake risked over $471k connected the Rams to triumph outright, receiving a payout of much than $711k. The rapper besides placed 2 different bets which were centered astir Rams superstar and Bitcoiner, Odell Beckham Jr.
The bets some risked $393k each that Beckham would apical 62.5 receiving yards and people astatine slightest 1 touchdown, winning the $844k payout for Odell scoring a archetypal 4th touchdown. Drake did not triumph his last stake arsenic Beckham's evening ended aboriginal due to the fact that of a genu injury, only completing 52 receiving years according to CBS Sports.
Had the past stake go a reality, Drake would person brought successful different $711k successful Bitcoin, totaling $2.27 million, but alternatively walked distant with nett of conscionable implicit $1.5 million. With celebrities similar Drake taking large BTC positions successful sports betting, the bitcoin sports-betting scenery conscionable got overmuch that much exciting.
"This is everything I've ever dreamed of, you know," Beckham told CBS Sports. "And determination was a infinitesimal I was successful the backmost country and they told maine I was done, I couldn't play. And I had to travel backmost retired determination and beryllium a portion of this due to the fact that it's truthful overmuch bigger than myself. And these boys pulled done and made it happen."
Last fall, Beckham opted to accept his caller wage successful bitcoin, becoming 1 of the latest NFL stars to bash truthful alongside Green Bay Packers backmost Aaron Rodgers.
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