Bitcoin Car Will Race At The Indianapolis 500

A car and driver branded with the Bitcoin logo will be racing against 32 other cars in this month’s Indianapolis 500.

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Bitcoin car will race at the Indianapolisfive hundred and next on your four Minute
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car and driver branded with the bitcoinlogo will be racing against thirty two other
cars in this month's Indianapolis five hundred. According to a blog post from zapp
CEO Jack Mallers, US racing driverEd Carpenter will be in the control of
the orange spotted bitcoin covered engineering bastscheduled to appear at the Indie five hundred

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on May thirteenth. Now Carpenter,who became a bitcoin over the last year,
reportedly forfeited all traditional sponsors in favorof driving the bitcoin car number twenty
one in the event. Now Carperjust said he doesn't want to race for
chips or beer this year, thathe has worked his entire life to race

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at the NBA five hundred and hasearned the platform that he has and this
year he wants to find a wayto incorporate bitcoin. Now Malers and the
race car driver they are both continuingto still raise donations from bitcoin enthusiasts,
and they plan to use seventy percentof all proceeds to fund open source bitcoin

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development, with the remaining money usedto fund the Bitcoin Car and for Indianapolis
charities. Ross Stevens, executive chairof New York Digital Investment Group, reportedly
pitched pitched in two hundred and fiftythousand dollars, with Malers contributing twenty five
thousand dollars in his strike payments andremittances, app donating one hundred thousand dollars

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ours. Other notable contributions include AnthonyPopuliano, NFST, NFL Star, Rough
Solacon, and Peter McCormick, hostof What Bitcoin Did podcast. Mahler says
this isn't the strike car, thecoin based car are the cracking car.
This is the Bitcoin car, andcontinued by saying that in a world of

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potato chips and energy drink sponsors,ed chose the race for human freedom,
financial illiteracy, financial inclusivity, savingtechnology, and bitcoin open source development.
Now bitcoin has found its way intoracing events. Before last year, a
cash app car driven by Darryl Wallace. Excuse me, Daryl, Wallace featured

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the iconic Bitcoin logo and NASCAR's TopRacing series. So I think it will
be pretty cool to see the bitcoincar racing in the Indianapolis five hundred.
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