Turkish team becomes first to buy footballer using Bitcoin
A Turkish amateur league football club named Harunustaspor signed 22-year-old Ãmer Faruk KÄ±roÄlu for 0.0524 Bitcoin, becoming the first-ever football team to pay transfer fee using the cryptocurrency. KÄ±roÄlu also received 2,500 Turkish Lira as part of the deal. Harunustaspor chairman Haldun Sehit said they used Bitcoin for the transfer to make the team known "in Turkey and the world".