On Wednesday, the cryptocurrency payments service company Bitwage announced that the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) strawweight Luana Pinheiro will be the first female UFC fighter to be paid in bitcoin. Pinheiro’s boyfriend, a UFC flyweight fighter, started getting paid in bitcoin last March and after her eight-fight winning streak, Pinheiro decided to follow her partner’s decision to get paid in crypto.
UFC Strawweight Luana Pinheiro to Get Paid in Bitcoin via Bitwage
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighters have been getting into crypto assets these days, after the UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou announced he would get half of his UFC 270 purse paid in bitcoin. UFC also partnered with the digital currency exchange Crypto.com and through a deal with the company, UFC Fight Night bonuses are paid in bitcoin. On July 27, the crypto payments service company Bitwage announced that UFC fighter, strawweight Luana Pinheiro (18-2 record), will be the first female UFC fighter to be paid in bitcoin (BTC).
Bitwage details that because Pinheiro is leveraging the company’s platform, she doesn’t have to negotiate with the mixed martial arts (MMA) company UFC to get crypto payments. Pinheiro got the idea from her boyfriend, who is also a UFC fighter in the flyweight division, Matheus Nicolau (18-2 record). Nicolau started getting paid in BTC in March and Bitwage says that it makes them “a true UFC power couple on the bitcoin standard.”
“MMA is a brutal sport and there is no time for overthinking. Mental strength and callousing one’s mind is everything,” Pinheiro explained in a statement sent to Bitcoin.com News. “I do not think I will have a problem with bitcoin going down or up [in fiat value]. If it was not volatile it would not go up either. Think about this: it takes on average 10-15 years for an individual to get a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, so my time preference here is equally long if not longer. Black belt time preference I call it. Everything else is just noise to me and the lower the price, the more bitcoin I will be able to secure for the future.”
Bitwage Co-Founder Jonathan Chester: ‘Proper Information at the Right Time Is Everything’
According to the co-founder and CEO of Bitwage, Jonathan Chester, the company’s team flew out to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to help Pinheiro get started in person. Chester remarked that the service is not just for…
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