7 Celebrities Who Have Invested in Bitcoin

Cryptocurrency is no longer popular just among programmers and tech developers. A growing number of celebrities have also jumped on the bandwagon, making investments and endorsements in various blockchain-based businesses and digital coins.

Here is our list of prominent celebrities that have invested in the crypto market’s number one coin – Bitcoin:

1. Björk

The Icelandic singer Björk in collaboration with Blockpool, a London-based company, enabled her fans to buy her 2017 album Utopia with Bitcoin. The quirky artist was reportedly working along with Blockpool to also allow payments with Litecoin, Dashcoin, and AudioCoin for her album.

2. Ashton Kutcher

The actor Ashton Kutcher co-founded A-Grade Investments, an investment fund that financed BitPay. It offers payment processing services for merchants that have Bitcoin-friendly businesses.

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The actor has been an avid supporter of blockchain and its applications for a long time. His company is involved with other startups and digital platforms around the industry.

“The bigger thing with bitcoin is: what can that decentralized technology really do? […] Imagine if we could decentralize that issue of security, and if we can decentralize security,” said Kutcher in a TechCrunch conference.

“The notion that we could civically monitor each other in an anonymous way actually keeps the anonymity of the Internet, we don’t have to worry about Big Brother and that same infrastructure that built out Bitcoin could be used in the security industry for mass good,” said the actor.

3. Richard Sherman

The famous NFL cornerback said that even though he was warned against making investments in cryptocurrencies, he has become a big supporter of the blockchain movement and has also invested and owns a few other cryptocurrencies aside from BTC.

“I have a few bitcoin and Ethereum and a few Litecoin, the simple mainstream ones,” said Sherman. “But I’m not into the thousands of other smaller coins.”

Sherman started investing in Bitcoin really early on after his fans asked if they could purchase merchandise from his website with the digital coin.

He regrets that he didn’t keep the bitcoins as they were, as he later converted them into US dollars. Sherman said that he purchased Bitcoin when it was valued at $1,000 and managed to cash in $20,000.

Sherman is also a spokesperson and investor in Cobinhood, a cryptocurrency exchange that enables trading without charging fees for its services.

4. Mel B

Former Spice Girl Mel B first came into contact with Bitcoin after she started accepting the coin as payment for her 2014 Christmas single on her website. Through her partnership with CloudHashing, a London-based company, she became the first artist in the music industry to accept Bitcoin as a means of payment for her music.

During a press release made at that time, she expressed her excitement regarding the cryptocurrency. “I love how new technology makes our lives easier, and to me that’s exciting,” stated Scary Spice. “Bitcoin unites my fans around the world using one currency. They can just pay using bitcoins!”

CloudHashing is one of the largest companies in the industry which offers bitcoin mining contracts.

5. Nas

American hip-hop artist and rapper Nas invested a substantial sum of $25 million dollars along with his manager Aymen Anthony Saleh in Coinbase, the leading US crypto exchange. Not only that, but he also backed up 500 startups, a Silicon Valley incubator for bitcoin-focused businesses, and invested in 40 startup ventures. The rapper stated that he has plans to continue his involvement in the blockchain and crypto world.

Nas was quoted to say in an interview that investing in Bitcoin was the future.

6. Mike Tyson

Renowned boxer Mike Tyson contributed to the development and marketing of “The Mike Tyson Bitcoin ATM,” an ATM which promised to exchange any fiat currency into Bitcoin in under 20 seconds. The ATMs were first installed at the LINQ Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

“I’m honored to join the bitcoin revolution with my very first bitcoin ATM,” stated Tyson at that time.

But the former heavyweight champion’s interest in the Bitcoin market didn’t stop at a branded ATM. Tyson partnered up again with Bitcoin Direct to launch a Bitcoin digital wallet for mobile devices.

The branded wallet lets the user sell, buy, and store Bitcoin though Glidera’s exchange platform. A mention should be made regarding the app’s background – it features the boxer’s face tattoo.

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7. Amitabh Bachchan

The famous Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan invested $250,000 US along with his son, Abhishek Bachchan, in the course of two years in a personal investment fund in Meridian Tech Pte, a company headquartered in Singapore.

Big B, as his fans know him, capitalized on the Bitcoin craze, the stocks he owned rising 2,500%. The investment brought the Bachchans 250,000 shares in the LongFirm company which, considering its stock price per share, would total $17.5 million.

Meridian described itself as a company that offers blockchain-based solutions as well as microfinancing through the use of cryptocurrencies.

Cole is a freelance writer focusing on cryptocurrency and emerging technologies. Previous articles on Masternodes have been featured on leading crypto websites and quoted in Whitepapers