BitPay In Talks To Continue Bitcoin Payments In Tropicana Field After Bitcoin Bowl

When BitPay purchased the rights to the St. Petersburg bowl and named it the ‘Bitcoin Bowl’ it was easy to assume.
Conspicuously absent from the announcement is what would be happening to all those Bitcoin enabled payment systems after the game. It obviously made sense to the crypto community for the option to stick around, but nothing had been announced publicly.
We can now confirm that BitPay is in talks with Tropicana and Centerplate (Tropicana Field’s concessions provider) to accept bitcoin not only during the Bitcoin bowl on December 26th but for the virtual currency to be accepted at the stadium afterwords as well
The talks were first mentioned to us by a high ranking BitPay employee, who does not have the authority to speak publicly on the matter but was clear on what the discussions entailed. When asked for comment, we were given this comment from BitPay’s VP of Marketing Stephanie Wargo that confirmed that their goal is for Tropicana to accept bitcoin at and after the Bitcoin bowl, including throughout the baseball season, but stopped just short of confirming the specifics of the discussion.

This post was published at Coin Telegraph on 2014-09-25.