Sacramento Kings将向球员提供比特币薪资选择

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US professional basketball team Sacramento Kings is offering its staff and players the option of earning in Bitcoin. This was disclosed by the team’s Chairman, CEO, and Governor Vivek Ranadivé on popular social networking app, Clubhouse.

美国职业篮球队萨克拉门托国王队为其员工和球员提供了用比特币赚钱的选择。该团队主席、首席执行官兼州长 Vivek Ranadivé 在流行的社交网络应用程序 Clubhouse 上披露了这一消息。

Sacramento Becomes First NBA Team To Offer Bitcoin Salaries

萨克拉门托成为第一支提供比特币薪资的 NBA 球队

Ranadivé made this known in a room hosted by a club called the ‘Satoshi Roundtable.’ The room was headed by Tim Draper, a venture capitalist well-known in the industry for purchasing Bitcoin from the US Marshall’s auction in 2014, and co-hosted by Bruce Fenton, a prominent Bitcoin advocate, and investor.

Ranadivé 在一个名为“中本聪圆桌会议”的俱乐部主办的房间里宣布了这一点。该房间由蒂姆·德雷珀 (Tim Draper) 领导，他是一位因 2014 年在美国马歇尔拍卖会上购买比特币而在业内闻名的风险投资家，并共同主持了这次会议。作者：布鲁斯·芬顿 (Bruce Fenton)，著名比特币倡导者和投资者。

The news first broke out on Twitter after a Clubhouse audience member, Neil Jacobs, tweeted what the Sacramento Kings owner said.

俱乐部会所观众尼尔·雅各布斯在推特上发布了萨克拉门托国王队老板的言论后，这一消息首先在推特上传出。

“I’m going to announce in the next few days that I’m going to offer everyone in the Kings organization, they can get paid as much of their salary in bitcoin as they want, including the players,” said Ranadivé, according to Jacobs.

据报道，拉纳迪夫表示：“我将在接下来的几天内宣布，我将为国王队的每个人提供他们想要的尽可能多的比特币工资，包括球员。”雅各布斯。

The news has generated many opinions from crypto critics and enthusiasts. Most say that this move would strengthen the California NBA team’s long-standing claim to be one of the most pro-crypto teams in professional sports.

这一消息引起了加密货币批评者和爱好者的许多意见。大多数人表示，此举将巩固加州 NBA 球队长期以来作为职业体育运动中最支持加密货币的球队之一的地位。

This is not the first time the sports team has innovated using blockchain tech. Sacramento Kings announced back in 2014 that they were open to receiving payments in Bitcoin for their team merchandise in partnership with payment processor BitPay.

这并不是运动队第一次使用区块链技术进行创新。萨克拉门托国王队早在 2014 年就宣布，他们愿意与支付处理商 BitPay 合作，接受以比特币支付其球队商品的付款。

It also started mining cryptocurrency in 2018 by setting up a program called MiningForGood that donates the funds to charity.

它还于 2018 年开始开采加密货币，设立了一个名为 MiningForGood 的计划，并将资金捐赠给慈善机构。

In 2019, Sacramento Kings went on to launch rewards tokens for fans. The token was called The Kings Token, and it was done in partnership with blockchain-based event ticketing platform Blockparty.

2019 年，萨克拉门托国王队继续为球迷推出奖励代币。该代币名为 The Kings Token，是与基于区块链的活动票务平台 Blockparty 合作完成的。

Basketball Embraces Crypto

篮球拥抱加密货币

The recent use of crypto in sports has triggered the global expansion of sports and teams as cryptocurrencies are now widely adopted in the sports sector.

最近加密货币在体育领域的使用引发了体育运动和团队的全球扩张，因为加密货币现已在体育领域广泛采用。

The Dallas Mavericks sports franchise owned by Mark Cuban is another NBA team using crypto as payments for tickets and sports merchandise.

马克·库班 (Mark Cuban) 拥有的达拉斯小牛队 (Dallas Mavericks) 是另一支使用加密货币支付门票和体育商品的 NBA 球队。

Last month, Cuban announced that they would be accepting Dogecoin as payment for tickets and merchandise. Shortly after that, Cuban confirmed that they immediately received more than 20,000 Dogecoin transactions making the Mavericks the largest Dogecoin merchant in the world.

上个月，古巴宣布他们将接受狗狗币作为门票和商品的支付方式。此后不久，库班证实他们立即收到了超过 20,000 笔狗狗币交易，使小牛队成为世界上最大的狗狗币商人。

Before the Dogecoin announcement, Mavericks already allow Bitcoin payments for tickets and merchandise through a partnership made with BitPay in 2019.

在狗狗币宣布之前，小牛队已经在 2019 年与 BitPay 建立了合作伙伴关系，允许用比特币支付门票和商品。

Not only is crypto being used to allow fans to purchase tickets and merchandise and for clubs to pay players’ salaries and transfer fees recently, but it has also gained momentum in the NFT sector.

最近，加密货币不仅被用来允许球迷购买门票和商品，以及俱乐部支付球员的工资和转会费，而且它在 NFT 领域也获得了发展势头。

The NFT market for trading cards and collectibles is a multi-million dollar industry enabling fans to immortalize sporting moments in pictures and other various mediums.

交易卡和收藏品的 NFT 市场是一个价值数百万美元的行业，使球迷能够通过图片和其他各种媒体将体育时刻永垂不朽。

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a major player in the NFT space through its online digital collectibles marketplace, the NBA Top Shot. The NFT mania has become a good source of revenue for basketball teams, with the NBA reportedly closing deals over $500 million, according to The Verge.

美国国家篮球协会 (NBA) 通过其在线数字收藏品市场 NBA Top Shot 成为 NFT 领域的主要参与者。据 The Verge 报道，NFT 热潮已成为篮球队的良好收入来源，据报道 NBA 达成的交易金额超过 5 亿美元。

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