Bitcoin won’t sponsor 2015 St. Petersburg Bowl

Story by:  Nick Bromberg 4 hours ago

The BitCoin St. Petersburg Bowl’s place in bowl history looks to be a fleeting one.

First reported by CoinDesk, the 2015 St. Petersburg Bowl will no longer have Bitcoin as its title sponsor. BitPay had originally signed a three-year deal to have BitCoin be the title sponsor of the game.

BitCoin is a peer-to-peer online currency system without a central authority. Because of its structure, it’s come under scrutiny, especially for its security. The value of a BitCoin fluctuates and when we wrote about the sponsorship announcement, a BitCoin was worth over $600 according to this website. Now, it’s worth less than $250.

According to an ESPN spokesperson, “The decision to rebrand the event to the St. Petersburg Bowl was a mutual one between both BitPay and ESPN.”

The St. Petersburg Bowl website already reflects the change in branding as BitCoin is no longer gracing the bowl’s logo. The @BitCoinBowl Twitter handle is also gone if you search for it on Twitter while @StPeteBowl exists.

BitCoin is the second new-in-2014 bowl sponsor to not return for 2015. Duck Commander is no longer the title sponsor of the Independence Bowl. However the game was not played with a sponsorship contract and the name of the company was used as an attempt to leverage other companies into sponsorship agreements with the bowl.

Via:http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/report–bitcoin-won-t-sponsor-2015-st–petersburg-bowl-121751682.html

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