Drake Bets Big On BTC Of $1.3M On Upcoming Super Bowl Match

Drake bets big on Bitcoin worth $1.3 million bet on the upcoming Super Bowl match, betting on Odell Beckham Junior’s performance so let’s find out more today in our latest bitcoin news.

The popular Canadian rapper Aubrey Drake Graham is known as Drake bets big on BTC on the super Bowl game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals. Drake snapshots its bet and posted it on Instagram for his 100 million followers to see with the caption “All Bets are in on the family” and the wager was a total of $1.25 million in BTC which was made via Stake, a crypto sports betting platform.

Drake placed a BTC bet worth $472,000 for the LA rams to win against the Bengals and the rapper also seemed to be behind Odell Beckham Junior who is a wide receiver for the LA Rams, and bet $393,825 on the footballer to have more than 62.5 receiving yards. The Canadian celebrity staked another chunk of cash on Beckham to catch a touchdown. Back in November, the American footballer announced that he will also receive his NFL salary in BTC after a partnership with CashApp.

The super Bowl LVI starts on Sunday and it has already seen massive interest from different crypto companies. Plenty of exchanges spent millions on advertisements to reach viewers during the game. FTX for example announced it will give out free BTC as a part of the BTC campaign with the platform paying for advertising space back in 2021. Another major crypto exchange Crypto.com paid more than $6 million for a 30-second ad in the 2022 Super bowl.

As recently reported, The campaign is a part of an effort by FTX to gain a huge brand presence in the more mainstream audience of sports fans considering that the Super Bowl is the most-watched sports event in the US. Sam Bankman Fried is an expert in aggressive marketing tactics and the campaign is no exception so it will not be just a typical giveaway but it will rely on luck and timing. No one knows how much money will be involved in the giveaway and therein lies the creative part of the campaign with the exchange explained that the number of BTC to be given away will depend on the time that the AD appears on the TV screen during the Super Bowl.