Global impact of a Bitcoin soccer club: Decentralize with Cointelegraph
Can a Bitcoin-boosted football club breathe life into a tired town in the United Kingdom? This week’s “Decentralize with Cointelegraph” podcast tours Bedford. This week’s episode of the Decentralize with Cointelegraph podcast takes a deep dive into Bitcoin (BTC) in Bedford. A Bitcoiner from the English town near London is turning heads and raising his town’s profile after buying his local soccer club, Real Bedford. Peter McCormack, who took the No. 38 spot on Cointelegraph’s 2023 Top 100, hosts a Bitcoin podcast and is an avid soccer fan. At the start of the soccer season in August 2022, he told Cointelegraph that winning the league would put Bedford on the Bitcoin map. Cointelegraph's Joe Hall pitchside with Peter McCormack. Nine months on, Real Bedford has fulfilled that promise. It won the United Kingdom’s South Midlands League and was promoted. However, has the move from the Bitcoin soccer club galvanized the locals or just grated on them? And how does running it work on the...