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Charlie Shrem may be on house arrest, but Bitcoin has another new
celeb champion, and his record is cleaner than “Bitcoin Bill”
Congressman Steve Stockman.
Well, somewhat.

If you guessed Chad ‘Ochocinco’ Johnson, you’re right. Yeah, we
didn’t see this one coming either.

The former NFL bad-boy wide receiver, who burned through
short-lived, tumultuous stints with the Cincinnati Bengals, the
New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins, is the latest pro
athlete to hop aboard the celebrity Bitcoin bandwagon. Or to at
least think about it.

A handful of Twitter users responded to the not exactly viral
tweet (by this afternoon, it had only garnered only 47 retweets
and 41 favorites), perhaps hoping to give the Miami native a leg
up in unravelling the enigma that is Bitcoin. One even pointed
out that Bitcoin isn’t taxable. Wrong!

Ochocinco’s apparently still only in the early “what the heck is
Bitcoin” phase we all went through, and he’s been “discussing the
concept” with a friend. He seems far from ready to accept Bitcoin
as a form of payment for fan gear, however, like Seattle
Seahawks’ cornerback Richard Sherman recently
started doing.

Maybe Johnson, a prolific serial tweeter, was trying to be ironic
when he asked the Twitterverse “Can y’all show me how easy it
[Bitcoin] is?”