{"id":38034,"date":"2025-07-21T20:46:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=38034"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:46:41","slug":"nfl-player-who-took-salary-in-bitcoin-says-crypto-can-create-wealth-in-years-what-took-your-grandparents-a-lifetime-to-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=38034","title":{"rendered":"NFL Player Who Took Salary In Bitcoin Says Crypto Can Create Wealth In Years: &#8216;What Took Your Grandparents A Lifetime To Build\u2026&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Salaries for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/topic\/nfl\">National Football League<\/a> players have changed over time, as the Watt brothers recently found out. A former NFL player who took a portion of his salary in <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) says players and investors can shorten the time it takes to build wealth thanks to the leading cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>Former NFL offensive tackle <strong>Russell Okung <\/strong>made <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">headlines in sports and cryptocurrency in December 2020\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/20\/12\/18957096\/nfl-player-russell-okung-takes-half-his-salary-in-bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when he announced\u00a0<\/a>that he would receive<\/span> half of his NFL salary in Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">The former NFL player received $13 million for the 2020 season, with $6.5 million paid in Bitcoin, thanks to the help of startup\u00a0<strong>Zap,\u00a0<\/strong>which handled the behind-the-scenes transactions, as the league didn&#8217;t pay out in crypto at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Okung remains bullish on Bitcoin today and has recently used a comparison between NFL salaries and the shortened timeframe for Bitcoin to create wealth for investors.<\/p>\n<p>A graphic comparing former NFL star <strong>J.J. Watt<\/strong> making $129.7 million in 12 years and younger brother <strong>T.J. Watt<\/strong> signing a three-year extension to make $123 million was shared by Okung. The &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/25\/07\/46532411\/nfl-player-who-took-salary-in-bitcoin-says-crypto-can-create-wealth-in-years-what-took-your-grandparents-a\" alt=\"NFL\" player who took salary in bitcoin says crypto can create wealth years: your grandparents a lifetime to build>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salaries for National Football League players have changed over time, as the Watt brothers recently found out. A former NFL player who took a portion of his salary in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) says players and investors can shorten the time it takes to build wealth thanks to the leading cryptocurrency. What Happened: Former NFL offensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-38034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}