{"id":350314,"date":"2024-07-23T17:49:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T12:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=350314"},"modified":"2024-07-23T17:49:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T12:19:32","slug":"crypto-personalities-swarm-six-time-nba-champion-scottie-pippen-to-pitch-favorite-projects-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/crypto-personalities-swarm-six-time-nba-champion-scottie-pippen-to-pitch-favorite-projects-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Personalities Swarm Six-Time NBA Champion Scottie Pippen To Pitch Favorite Projects &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NBA legend and Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen is receiving thousands of social media responses after posting a crypto-related query.<\/p>\n<p>The retired six-time NBA champion posted a simple question on the social media platform X over the weekend: Ethereum (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/currencies\/ethereum\/\">ETH<\/a>) or Solana (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/currencies\/solana\/\">SOL<\/a>)?<\/p>\n<p>However, the Hall of Famer\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ScottiePippen\/status\/1814810549169099133\">question<\/a> didn\u2019t receive a simple answer, yielding 5,600 replies, including a mishmash of different responses from prominent members of the crypto community. Some didn\u2019t even chime in with an opinion on one of the top two smart contract platforms.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Jack Mallers, the chief executive and founder of the Bitcoin wallet and payments application Strike, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jackmallers\/status\/1815031277646688667\">suggested<\/a> Pippen look to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/currencies\/bitcoin\/\">BTC<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n<p>The crypto investor Chris Burniske, a partner at the venture capital firm Placeholder, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cburniske\/status\/1815072262871240817\">asked <\/a>\u201cwhy not both?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Dogecoin (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/currencies\/dogecoin\/\">DOGE<\/a>) co-creator Billy Markus, also known as Shibetoshi Nakamoto, didn\u2019t waste any time shilling for his own project, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BillyM2k\/status\/1814856916545511783\">responding<\/a> \u201cdog coin obv.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pippen tried to ignite another debate on Monday, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ScottiePippen\/status\/1815466396115226911\">asking<\/a> \u201cmeme coins or utility coins?\u201d The former Chicago Bulls small forward also <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ScottiePippen\/status\/1815542263977758808\">teased<\/a> \u201csomething big\u201d coming to the blockchain but noted it was still a secret.<\/p>\n<p>Pippen has long been a vocal supporter of crypto, even launching his own non-fungible token (NFT) collection in late 2022. The collection has registered 435 ETH in total volume, according to the NFT marketplace <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/opensea.io\/collection\/scottie-pippen\">OpenSea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 13pt\">Don&#8217;t Miss a Beat \u2013 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/join-the-daily-hodl-email-list\/\">Subscribe<\/a> to get email alerts delivered directly to your inbox <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: 13pt\">Check <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/crypto-markets\/\">Price Action<\/a><\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: 13pt\">Follow us on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDailyHodl\">X<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedailyhodl\/\">Facebook<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/thedailyhodl\">Telegram<\/a><\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: 13pt\">Surf <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/daily-hodl-mix\">The Daily Hodl Mix<\/a><\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"hideinamp\">\n<p>&amp;nbsp<\/p>\n<h6>Disclaimer: Opinions expressed at The Daily Hodl are not investment advice. 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However, the Hall of Famer\u2019s question didn\u2019t receive a simple answer, yielding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[201,248,251,246,257,255,250,252,247,253,249,256,254],"class_list":["post-350314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others","tag-blockchain","tag-bsc","tag-chainlink","tag-coin","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-gta","tag-looks-rare","tag-oracle","tag-polygon","tag-quickswap","tag-safe-moon","tag-wallet","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350323,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350314\/revisions\/350323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}