{"id":4575,"date":"2024-12-21T13:17:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T13:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=4575"},"modified":"2024-12-21T13:17:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T13:17:17","slug":"usc-football-player-gets-nil-earnings-in-bitcoin-setting-myself-up-for-long-term-financial-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=4575","title":{"rendered":"USC Football Player Gets NIL Earnings In Bitcoin: &#8216;Setting Myself Up For Long-Term Financial Growth&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The ability for college athletes to be paid for their name, image and likeness in a blockbuster 2021 NCAA agreement has changed NCAA Football forever and will see one player get paid in <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) in 2025, following other professional<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/general\/sports\/24\/11\/41918833\/nfl-player-mocked-for-taking-salary-in-bitcoin-russell-okung-may-have-the-last-laugh-as-btc-soars\"> athletes into cryptocurrency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: Since the approval of NIL deals, top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/topic\/ncaa-football\">NCAA Football players<\/a> have been able to earn thousands and millions of dollars on deals.<\/p>\n<p>USC recruit <strong>Matai Tagoa&#8217;i <\/strong>announced he will be paid in Bitcoin for a portion of his NIL payments starting next year, as reported by On3.<\/p>\n<p>The deal comes through a partnership with <strong>Strike<\/strong>, a Bitcoin payments app. USC NIL collective <strong>House of Victory <\/strong>helped facilitate the deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a game-changer for me. By taking part of my NIL earnings in Bitcoin, I&#8217;m setting myself up for long-term financial growth. I&#8217;m grateful to Strike, House of Victory and 3Point0 Labs for helping me take this step,&#8221; Tagoa&#8217;i said.<\/p>\n<p>With the deal, Tagoa&#8217;i is believed to be the first college athlete to get paid NIL payments in Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/general\/sports\/24\/12\/42634887\/usc-football-player-gets-nil-earnings-in-bitcoin-setting-myself-up-for-long-term-financial-growth\" alt=\"USC\" football player gets nil earnings in bitcoin: myself up for long-term financial growth>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability for college athletes to be paid for their name, image and likeness in a blockbuster 2021 NCAA agreement has changed NCAA Football forever and will see one player get paid in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) in 2025, following other professional athletes into cryptocurrency. What Happened: Since the approval of NIL deals, top NCAA Football [&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-4575","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\/4575","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=4575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}