Perth Heat Rewards Fans with Bitcoin for Stealing Bases and Home Runs!

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• The Perth Heat, a successful Australian Baseball League team, has announced a new partnership with Bitrefill, Wallet of Satoshi and IBEX that rewards fans in Bitcoin every time a player from the team steals a base or hits a home run.
• Fans can receive their reward instantly after scanning a QR code with a Lightning-enabled wallet when an impressive play is made.
• This is the latest innovation for the team using Bitcoin and Lightning as they look to further integrate cryptocurrency into their fan experience.

Perth Heat Announces Partnership With Bitrefill, Wallet of Satoshi and IBEX

The Perth Heat, the Australian Baseball League’s most successful baseball team, has announced a new partnership that rewards fans in bitcoin every time a player from Perth Heat steals a base or hits a home run.

How Fans Can Receive Their Reward

The partnership with Bitrefill, Wallet of Satoshi and IBEX will allow fans to “Steal Sats” by scanning a QR code displayed on the game stream or on the team’s social media channels when a player makes an impressive play. Fans will receive their reward instantly after scanning the code with a Lightning-enabled wallet, introducing a novel fan interaction system that brings further excitement to thrilling moments in games.

Perth Heat’s Previous Innovations With Cryptocurrency

The baseball team made headlines in 2021 when they adopted Bitcoin standard and integrated Lightning, becoming the first professional sports team to do so. Afterwards, the Heat proved their desire to further integrate Bitcoin widely introducing Lightning services to their stadium and fan experiences. The team then announced “sats4stats,” which is way to boost fans’ favorite players through lightning network. The latest introduction of Stealing Sats is simply another innovation for the team using Bitcoin and Lightning.

Reactions From Partnerships Involved

Ry Sterling, business development at IBEX said how they seek to revolutionize fan engagement saying “At IBEX our focus is spreading innovation via lightning network and with lead from Perth heat #stealingsatss #satsforstats has opened our eyes to whole new market of global fandom that we had not considered before” .Chris Pavlesic ,Bitrefill’s Australia manager said “With stealing sats ,fans can now participate in game in whole new way ,and we are excited too see how this will continue evolve over time” .Daniel Alexiuc CEO at Wallet of Satoshi added “the whole Team at wallet of satoshi really excited about stealing sats with perth heat…it such innovative way demonstrate bitcoin easy for everybody” .

Steven Nelkovski’s Comment Regarding The Partnership

Steven Nelkovski CEO of Perth heat commented press release sent bitcoin magazine saying “We are thrilled be launching stealing sats partnership bitrefill ,wallet satoshi ,IBEX……This innovative way engage our fans offer them something new exciting …we believe program will enhance fan experience incentivize our players push themselves achieve best field”