- Green Bay Packers quarterback
Aaron Rodgers said Monday he was giving awaybitcoin worth $1 billion viaCash App . - But not every lucky fan got the same amount, as people on Twitter posted screenshots of bitcoin worth $10 or $100.
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers said Monday he was giving away $1 million in bitcoin to fans via a collaboration with
"To make Bitcoin more accessible to my fans I'm giving out a total of $1M in btc now too. Drop your $cashtag w/ #PaidInBitcoin & follow @CashApp," he said in a Halloween-themed video posted to Twitter.
The reigning 2020
"Bitcoin to the moon," Rodgers said.
But it appears not every lucky fan who scored a handout got the same amount of bitcoin. Tweets by CashApp users on the same thread showed some got bitcoin worth around $10, and others $100.
Aaron didn't say on Twitter that the giveaways would vary, and Cash App did not respond to Insider's request for clarification by the time of writing.
Rodgers, who signed a four-year contract worth $134 million with the Packers in 2018, is the latest athlete to jump on the cryptocurrency bandwagon. Tom Brady, who cofounded his own NFT platform Autograph, recently gave a fan an entire bitcoin, worth $62,081 at the time.
Bitcoin is projected to be among the top five strongest performing investments by 2024, with an estimated market value of over $5 trillion, according to a study by Forex Suggest. If it happens to top that mark, its market capitalization would surpass that of tech giants Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet by over a trillion dollars.