Global impact of a Bitcoin soccer club: Decentralize with Cointelegraph

This week’s occurrence of the Decentralize with Cointelegraph podcast takes a heavy dive into Bitcoin (BTC) successful Bedford. A Bitcoiner from the English municipality adjacent London is turning heads and raising his town’s illustration aft buying his section shot club, Real Bedford.

Peter McCormack, who took the No. 38 spot connected Cointelegraph’s 2023 Top 100, hosts a Bitcoin podcast and is an avid shot fan. At the commencement of the shot season in August 2022, helium told Cointelegraph that winning the league would enactment Bedford connected 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 determination from the Bitcoin shot nine galvanized the locals oregon conscionable grated connected them? And however does moving it enactment connected the ground?

Cointelegraph traveled to Real Bedford’s last location crippled of the play to interrogation fans, locals and Bitcoin advocates from astir the satellite to recognize the whys and hows of the Bitcoin shot club. From the club’s commentator to a Liberal Democrat councillor to well-known Bitcoin advocator Jeff Booth, this week’s podcast takes listeners connected a whistlestop circuit of Bedford.

Cointelegraph speaks with locals successful the Bedford municipality center. 

An underdog communicative that explores themes of competition, assemblage and Bitcoin consciousness successful the United Kingdom, it’s wide that Real Bedford has taken the Bitcoin assemblage by storm.

Cointelegraph besides caught up with McCormack pitchside during his What Bitcoin Did podcast unrecorded lawsuit to quibble astir whether helium was pursuing a idiosyncratic passionateness task oregon the stakes were greater.

Moreover, with the terms per Bitcoin still wallowing nether $30,000, the accumulation seeks to item that determination is much than a speculative streak to the world’s largest cryptocurrency. McCormack explained:

“I deliberation the happening astir Bitcoin present is it’s not astir Bitcoin. It’s Nostr, it’s Bitcoin, it’s mainstream media lies, it is mediocre governance and regulation.”

It’s not astir “I’m going to get Bedford to bargain Bitcoin,” helium continued. He wants to beryllium cautious successful curating the club’s representation successful the town,  and the Real Bedford website adjacent has a blog post titled “Why you shouldn’t bargain Bitcoin.”

The headline, however, is that this lower-league shot squad appears to beryllium evolving into a bastion for Bitcoin adoption successful the United Kingdom — perceive to the Decentralize with Cointelegraph podcast connected Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts oregon your favourite level to larn how.