The popular NFL player Russell Okung started tweeting on bitcoin on May 14th. He is a player for the Los Angeles Chargers and also a member of the Conference West division of the NFL. Russell wanted his salary to be paid in Bitcoin as per his tweet. The tweet went viral with thousands of retweets and likes. Thereafter, other NFL players started showing interest in the bitcoin and the chain of retweets started.

The series of tweets started with the first tweet by Russell Okung:

Pay me in Bitcoin. — Russell Okung 🇳🇬 (@RussellOkung) May 14, 2019

After the tweet flooded with a lot of likes and retweets, Russell came up with another tweet:

How dope would it be to see a ESPN headline with an athlete being paid in $BTC? https://t.co/Ey6oOcEmb8 — Russell Okung 🇳🇬 (@RussellOkung) May 14, 2019

These tweets were replied by another player Matt Barkley from NFL team Buffalo Bills. He replied Russell saying that he tried. Later he sent out the following tweet:

Already am mining https://t.co/Wgn8KVdLYA — Matt Barkley (@MattBarkley) May 14, 2019

These tweets propelled various other familiar people including Anthony Polpliano (aka “Pomp”) and John Carvalho. Anthony Polpliano is a founding [partner at Morgan Creek Digital Assets. He tweeted to applaud both players for their knowledge and awareness about Bitcoin. John Carvalho, the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Bitrefill suggested Russel in his retweet to not trade until he intends to make a full-time career through it.

Russell started to listen to Laura Shin’s, Pomp’s and Marty Bent’s podcast. He says that Bitcoin has changed his way of looking world and started reading about BTC forks. On May 25th he tweeted that two other NFL players were seeking information about bitcoin.