Yo. Today I am thrilled to reveal that the world’s first Bitcoin Car will be racing at the 105th running of the Indianapolis 500. Future hall of fame auto racing driver Ed Carpenter of Ed Carpenter Racing has forfeited all sponsors this year and together we are breaking the traditional sponsorship model. We have officially teamed up to race the Bitcoin car, racing for Bitcoin awareness and Bitcoin open-source development.
On your marks. This year, the greatest spectacle in racing and one of America’s favorite pastimes will have a Bitcoin car. For the first time in history, an orange-spotted, Bitcoin-covered, engineering beast is going to race 500 miles in front of millions of people. I’d like to make this point very clear: this isn’t the Strike car, the Coinbase car, the Kraken car, etc. Why? Because fuck that, nobody wants to cheer for that. This is the Bitcoin car.
On May 30th, Ed’s team will take the track to race car #21, the Bitcoin car. In a world of potato chip and energy drinks sponsors, Ed chose to race for human freedom, financial literacy, financial inclusivity, savings technology, and Bitcoin open-source development.
On April 15th, 2021 at 12:06pm CT I received an email from David Ravensberg.
Indy 500 Opportunity
Jack,
Reaching out today on behalf of my close friend and Indy Car driver/team owner, Ed Carpenter of Ed Carpenter Racing. …as a fellow HODLer we are considering running a “Bitcoin car” — all orange car with the Bitcoin logo on the front. Similar to Russell Okung, was wondering if there was a play to partner with Strike on this…
I’ll never forget receiving that email. Growing up in the United States, whether you like sports, whether you like racing, if you were born yesterday, you know the Indy 500. The Indy 500 is one of the most popular sporting events in America. Every year for memorial day weekend the world gathers around their TV to watch the best drivers in the world compete for their dream: an Indy 500 1st place finish, a milk chug, and of course, kissing the bricks.
I responded to David’s email with my phone number and was on the phone with him and Ed the next day.
On that call, Ed really moved me.
“You don’t become an IndyCar driver to get rich. This is a career driven by passion. Over the last year, I’ve gone down the rabbit hole and become a Bitcoiner. I believe Bitcoin represents a better world. I don’t want to race for chips or beer this year. I’ve worked my entire life to race at the Indy 500 and have earned the platform that I have, and this year, I want to find a way to incorporate Bitcoin”
I loved everything about it. To Ed, this wasn’t about maximizing his sponsorships. This wasn’t a popularity contest. This wasn’t about looking cool on TV. To Ed, this was about using the platform he’s earned to push humanity forward. This was bigger than Ed, bigger than racing, bigger than anything he’d ever done before. Turns out, Ed has car #21, and is racing directly next to the PNC Bank car. You can’t write a script like this.
While on the call with Ed, I erupted with an idea; forfeit all your sponsors. If we put Bitcoin on a global stage the community will take care of the rest and we can crowdsource funding to make this the single biggest Bitcoin awareness + Bitcoin open-source funding event in the asset’s history.
I admittedly didn’t know much about racing, but I know product, and I know Bitcoin. The Bitcoin community is the most passionate community the world has ever seen. A community of people so crazy that not only did they think they can re-architect money from scratch, they did. I had all the confidence that we, the Bitcoin community, would raise millions of dollars and make history.
I proposed 70% of all donations go towards funding open-source Bitcoin development and the other 30% will ensure the car is funded. Once we have obtained the necessary capital to fund the car, the 30% will then be donated to local Indianapolis charities such as the Riley Hospital for Children. I urged Ed and his team to give it some thought and sleep on it. If he was on board, I’d give it all I got. Ed called me the next day, “I’m in”.
I hung up, opened my sketchbook, and started drawing. Within a day we had the beginnings of what would become history. The production had to be Bitcoin everything. Not just the car, but the uniforms, the pit crew suits, the luggage vehicles. Hell, even the umbrellas. Everything will have a Bitcoin logo on it, no gear left behind. If we’re going to do this, we’re going to do this.
Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, the #21 Bitcoin Car at the 105th running of the Indianapolis 500.
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Source: https://jimmymow.medium.com/announcing-the-bitcoin-car-520a25b9b41e?source=rss——-8—————–cryptocurrency
