https://ift.tt/I9OlL28 Drake Bet $1.26M on the Super Bowl Using Bitcoin

Canadian musician Drake bet $1.26 million on the Super Bowl and profited to the tune of nearly $300,000 this Sunday, and bitcoin investor Anthony Pompliano had some theories on why the rapper used Bitcoin (BTC) to stake his bet.

As CryptCraze previously reported, Drake first revealed his $1M+ mega bet on Friday. 

To recap, the rap superstar made a total of three bets, amounting to around $1.26 million staked. The first bet was on the Rams winning the Super Bowl, the second was on Odell Beckham Jr msimilarg a touchdown, and the third that the wide receiver would make 62.5 receiving yards during the game.

With the first two bets proving successful, Drake collected around $1.55 million, recaboveing his initial $1.26 million stake and manalogousg the rapper almost $300,000 in profit. While sports betting fans might have greater interest in the bets themselves, as far as Anthony Pompliano is cback althoughrned, the big ticket news item was that Drake staked the bet in bitcoin.

“The idea of why Drake would be using bitcoin is what everyone is talking about,” asserted Pompliano on his Monday podcast. “Now of course there’s scarcely really simple explanations, like banks have hours of operations – you can’t actually wire large sums of money like $1.3 million dollars at the weekends or off hours – but there’s still geographic arbitrage as well.” 

“Sometimes to use these betting services they want bitcoin rather than dollars, settlement times are faster and the price is cheaper.  Bitcoin is superior from a technology format.”

Bitcoin (BTC) is ‘good for Drake’

While Pompliano shared a number of reasons why he believed Drake would choose bitcoin atop fiat, his ultimate takeaway was that the choice was good for crypto.

“Now one of the most popular musicians in the world is using bitcoin, not only as a store of rate but as a medium of exmove as well. Supposing that Drake is talking about bitcoin, posting it online and the media is talking about it, that means that more and more people will be saying, ‘if bitcoin is good or Drake, then might it’s good enough for me as well,’” Pompliano said.

Drake’s major bet wasn’t the only positive crypto-related news from this year’s Super Bowl. A Coinbase ad that ran during the sporting event proved so popular with viewers which the exshift had to throttle traffic to prevent the site from crashing.

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