{"id":16718,"date":"2021-05-04T13:44:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T13:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci028240b630002568"},"modified":"2021-05-04T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T13:44:20","slug":"ifunanyachi-achara-taking-bitcoin-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/ifunanyachi-achara-taking-bitcoin-salary","title":{"rendered":"Pro Soccer Player Ifunanyachi Achara Takes Portion Of Salary In Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yet another professional athlete has come out publicly in support of Bitcoin, and has joined the \u201cPay Me In Bitcoin\u201d movement. Toronto FC forward Ifunanyachi Achara had already been buying bitcoin via Binance himself, but in February he finally made the jump to converting about half his salary to bitcoin via Bitwage, according to CoinDesk<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cLearn #Bitcoin,\u201d reads Achara\u2019s Twitter bio<\/a>, a sign that he really understands what Bitcoin has to offer. He knows that Bitcoin can help protect himself, but also his family back in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rate of inflation is killing us. The more the U.S. prints money during COVID to help people, the more it devalues our currency,\u201d Archara told CoinDesk<\/em>. \u201cSo my family, when I send them money home, I send them bitcoin.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bitcoin is the perfect tool for Achara and his family to use to protect their savings against the devastating aftermath of inflation\/hyperinflation. Bitcoin\u2019s hard capped supply of 21 million ensures this; and with Bitcoin operating on a peer-to-peer network, he can send money straight to his family quickly and with relatively small fees. In comparison to sending money out of the country via the legacy financial system, Bitcoin offers a platform with no middlemen, and will continue having enormous benefits for the people who use it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I wanted to send money to my parents to move away from a state that I felt like was really violent, I couldn\u2019t,\u201d Archara said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t send them money to the bank. It was just through Bitcoin that I was able to send my family money more easily and efficiently and as fast as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Archara is a young gun, at only age 23, and has several years left in his career. One of the many bullish things about this story is that his family is going to benefit tremendously over this span from Bitcoin\u2019s killer app: number go up. The more bitcoin he accumulates for his family and the higher bitcoin\u2019s price reaches, the wealthier his family becomes. His family in Nigeria should have the financial freedom to leave the state if they\u2019re not treated well, and move to one where they\u2019re treated best.<\/p>\n

This is yet another fantastic example of a real world use case for Bitcoin and it\u2019s changing lives. It\u2019s a beautiful thing to watch play out, and one can only assume that more athletes and their families are going to adopt a Bitcoin standard, just as the Archaras have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto FC forward Ifunanyachi Achara is converting part of his pro soccer salary to bitcoin and sending BTC remittances to family in Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2687,"featured_media":8044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1629,1406],"class_list":{"0":"post-16718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"author_data":{"id":2687,"name":"Conor Chepenik","nicename":"conor-chepenik","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_8330-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/binance-opens-fiat-deposits-for-nigerians.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16718","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\/2687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}