Mark Cuban, Billionaire Technology Investor And Owner Of The NBA Team The Dallas Mavericks Tweeted On Tuesday January 16 That From next season, it will be possible to buy tickets for team matches with Bitcoin.

The Dallas Mavericks will not be the first basketball team to accept Bitcoin as a means of payment for tickets. The Sacramento Kings have officially begun accepting Bitcoin for promotional products as well as for tickets as far back as 2014.

Cuban is an important figure in the cryptocurrency industry. He is famous for not only investing in a digital currency hedge fund and an ICO but also launching Ethereum's Mercury Cryptocurrency Protocol in August 2017.

Cuban opinion on cryptocurrency and Blockchain has changed several times over the course of 2017 – he joined the voices calling the world's first virtual currency "a bubble" in June, but in October was claiming cryptocurrencies and Blockchain are the future.

In addition, Cuba has included a tip to invest 10% of your lifetime savings in Bitcoin in its video guide on "how to get rich".