An inspection is underway Guardia di Finanza at the headquarters ofAlexandria Football, Moccagatta. This is an administrative activity and not a judicial police operation. The financial police are checking various documents to verify if there are any irregularities.
Alessandria Calcio had previously stated that it had decided to be the first professional football club to adopt the cryptocurrency as a payment method for match tickets. The innovation, which can be enjoyed through an app, will be possible thanks to partners Bitville, Coinbar and Vectorium.
It is Coinbar Pay, an app made available by Coinbar, a regulated cryptocurrency exchange based in Italy. Bitville, the international leader of the Fédération Française de Blockchain, will allow the club's tokenization and popular shareholding process to begin. The partnership will allow Alessandria Calcio to create works of art in NFTs that, in addition to financing the club, will also contribute to carrying forward the Ideale Grigio and Museo Grigio projects.
“As president of the club – declares Enea Benedetto – I am truly proud to have made Alessandria Calcio the first professional team in Europe that will accept cryptocurrency payments for the purchase of tickets and merchandising. The adoption of cryptocurrency payments – he underlines – represents only the first step in a digitalization process. We want to bring Alessandria Calcio to the creation of NFTs, non-fungible tokens, for collectibles and authenticated merchandise. But not only that, we want to get to the tokenization of player rights, to allow fans and investors to become protagonists, exchanging tokens and participating in the profits deriving from players' careers, such as transfers or advertising contracts. Up to transferring payments and prizes for players and coaches to blockchain, increasing the transparency and traceability of financial transactions. In short, thanks to our partners Bitville, Coinbar, Vectorium and Chainblock we have taken an important step, the first towards the digitalization of the team”.
Article published on November 16, 2023 - 13:42
