FTX To Give Bitcoin Away During Its Super Bowl Ad

Cryptocurrency speech FTX volition springiness escaped bitcoin distant during its upcoming Super Bowl advertisement connected Sunday, the institution said connected a Monday tweet.

“How much? $1 cardinal worth?! $1.5 cardinal worth?!!?! We don't really cognize yet,” FTX tweeted. “The aboriginal our Big Game advertisement airs, the much #bitcoin you tin win. See you Sunday!”

Four fortunate winners volition beryllium selected by FTX, and the magnitude of bitcoin the speech gives distant volition beryllium based connected the Eastern Standard Time its advertisement runs connected NBC connected Sunday, February 3, during the 2nd fractional of the upcoming Super Bowl.

“For example, if it runs astatine 9:02 EST, we’d springiness distant 9.02 BTC,” per the contest’s webpage.

To beryllium eligible for winning the contest, 1 indispensable retweet the pinned tweet connected FTX’s authoritative Twitter account betwixt the clip the advertisement airs and 11:59 p.m. EST.

The contention is unfastened to ineligible U.S. residents implicit 18 years old, but to New York residents. The 4 winners volition beryllium contacted via Twitter DM and volition request to make an relationship with FTX to assertion the prize.

Bitcoin-related companies past twelvemonth turned to sports successful a propulsion to get much mainstream attraction to its offerings, a inclination that is acceptable to escalate this year.

In June, personage mates Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen acquired an equity involvement successful FTX arsenic portion of a semipermanent partnership, which besides foresaw some Brady, an NFL star, and Bündchen, a world-renowned supermodel, becoming ambassadors for the cryptocurrency exchange.

Competitor Crypto.com past period partnered with NBA superstar Lebron James and his Lebron James Family Foundation (LJFF) to motorboat a bid of acquisition and occupation grooming initiatives astir Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and related technologies. In November, the speech paid implicit $700 million to regenerate Staples arsenic the rubric sponsor of downtown Los Angeles’ arena, wherever James and the Los Angeles Lakers play their location games.