Oliver Knight is a CoinDesk reporter based between London and Lisbon. He does not own any crypto.
Professional basketball player and NBA All-Star Tyrese Haliburton has said that he would consider taking a portion of his salary in cryptocurrency.
The 24-year-old Indiana Pacers point guard discussed his experiences with crypto during an interview with CoinDesk alongside 2024 NBA Slam Dunk Contest champion"I don't ever want to say never," Haliburton told CoinDesk."With my schedule, I'm not day trading, but my brother does that a lot. So I could see myself taking a large sum of my contract and giving that to my brother to day trade and pay attention to the dips in the market.
Haliburton said that whilst he first heard about bitcoin, he found himself gravitating to Ethereum, since it was the blockchain that hosted the majority of NFTs. "I heard of bitcoin a few years back. Spencer Dinwiddie was the first guy in the NBA to ever say anything. This is when I was in college," Haliburton said."The first crypto I got involved with was Ethereum because that was the blockchain I was using for NFTs, so that's why I've heavily invested in Ethereum. I want to get into bitcoin because it's the blue chip of crypto.
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