{"id":10111,"date":"2022-04-14T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci029e8833400026f4"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:26:29","slug":"bitrefill-nba-star-partner-to-launch-bitcoin-smart-sneakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/bitrefill-nba-star-partner-to-launch-bitcoin-smart-sneakers","title":{"rendered":"Bitrefill Partners With NBA Star For Bitcoin Smart Sneakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><ul>\n<li>Bitrefill is partnering with NBA star Spencer Dinwiddie to launch Bitsneaks, a high-tech sneaker capable of displaying the real-time price of bitcoin. <\/li>\n<li>The sneakers have cellular internet connectivity with a 3G connection embedded into a flexible LED-matrix screen with a full node and mining rig built into the shoebox.<\/li>\n<li>The cellular data is free in 154 countries and the LED turns purple once bitcoin hits $1 million. The shoe costs 1 BTC and can only be purchased in bitcoin. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bitrefill is stepping onto the basketball court with NBA star Spencer Dinwiddie, in a partnership where they are launching Bitsneaks, the world\u2019s most high-tech sneaker that is capable of streaming the live price of bitcoin. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the same way we believe our services at Bitrefill.com must be 10 times better than our competitors, when we made a sneaker, we wanted it with 10x the coolness of anything else,\u201d said Sergej Kotliar, founder of Bitrefill, in a press release sent to <em>Bitcoin Magazine<\/em>. \u201cWe\u2019ll let you decide whether we were successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bitsneaks-gif.gif\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>The team at Bitrefill, in collaboration with TNSID and Spencer Dinwiddie designed what they are calling a \u201cquantum leap\u201d in sneaker technology. Each sneaker has cellular internet built into a sleek and flexible LED-matrix screen which is controllable through a mobile application. The absurdity of this creation is not missed by Bitrefill. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us to beat giants like Nike and build what everyone said was impossible is yet another proof of what a small dedicated team like ours can do when trying to achieve something truly foolish,\u201d said Kotliar. <\/p>\n<p>The sneakers are the first of many launches that will be coming from the Bitrefill team in coming months and can only be purchased with bitcoin. The Bitsneaks come with a price tag of 1 BTC, meaning that the pair will always display the value of the bitcoin used to purchase them. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always strived to be a transformative and revolutionary leader in the cryptocurrency world and the opportunity to develop the world\u2019s most high-tech sneaker with Bitrefill has been the experience of a lifetime!,\u201d said Dinwiddie, in the release.<\/p>\n<p>The limited-edition Bitsneaks are available for pre-orders at bitsneaks.com starting Wednesday, April 13 at 3 PM CET.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/screen-shot-2022-04-12-at-14608-pm.png\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitrefill partners with Spencer Dinwiddie to launch a smart sneaker capable of displaying the BTC price in real time with a node built into the shoe box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2785,"featured_media":10114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[132,138,1307,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-10111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bitcoin-price","9":"tag-bitrefill","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-news"},"author_data":{"id":2785,"name":"Shawn Amick","nicename":"shawn-amick","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MjEwMTYzMzc3Njg5ODYzNjQ2-96x96.webp"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/bitsneaks_construction_1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}