{"id":40919,"date":"2021-04-17T12:03:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T09:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40919"},"modified":"2025-08-30T16:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:22:13","slug":"ufc-fighter-frankie-edgar-buys-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ufc-fighter-frankie-edgar-buys-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC fighter Frankie Edgar buys Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MMA fighter Frankie Edgar says he bought his first cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\\\">\n<div class=\\\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\\\">\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-width=\\\"500\\\" data-dnt=\\\"true\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">Just bought some Bitcoin \ud83d\ude2c<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Frankie Edgar (@FrankieEdgar) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrankieEdgar\/status\/1383175378940915716?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">April 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In response, Twitter user Darren Coleman wrote that Edgar bought Bitcoin too late. In his view, the digital asset \u201cis unlikely to rise\u201d from this level and \u201cmay even crash.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\\\">\n<div class=\\\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\\\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/twistedmonk7\/status\/1383190663068536833\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Another commenter, Daniel Torres, advised Edgar to buy Dogecoin (DOGE). On April 16, the price of the token <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/dogecoin-nears-0-40-mark\">approached the $0.40 mark<\/a>. According to CoinGecko, over the past week DOGE rose 411%.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\\\">\n<div class=\\\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\\\">\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-width=\\\"500\\\" data-dnt=\\\"true\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">You need to buy some Doge coin while its cents on the dollar then thank me when your rich.  100,000 shares for 1,000 dollars I bought at 4 cents now its at 34 cents I&#8217;ve made 30 grand 5 days<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DANIEL TORRES (@kidhurley755) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kidhurley755\/status\/1383180148518780928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">April 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Earlier, MMA fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/khabib-nurmagomedov-sets-starting-price-for-his-nft-collection\">opened pre-orders<\/a> for gold and platinum NFT cards from his own collection.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, NFL player Rob Gronkowski <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nfl-star-rob-gronkowski-sells-nft-collection-for-1-6-million\">sold an NFT collection<\/a> for 830 ETH \u2014 more than $2 million at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMA fighter Frankie Edgar has said he bought his first cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,828],"class_list":["post-40919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40921,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40919\/revisions\/40921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}