Perth Heat Baseball Adopts A Bitcoin Standard

This is a recording of a recent Twitter Spaces conversation about the Australian baseball team, Perth Heat, moving to a bitcoin standard.

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[0:06] Perth Heat: We had a great experience of credit to the whole organization that put the conference together. Scaling of that size after a few years I thought was quite phenomenal the way Bitcoin Magazine was able to run the event in a lot of ways, not knowing what sort of support you’d get globally after all the lockdowns and travel restrictions, et cetera. To see that many Bitcoiners to have those interactions was just a phenomenal three days. It’s hard not to get excited about 2023 and what’s to come. For those that didn’t attend in April this year, the opportunity to purchase those tickets at a discount rate, secure them as quickly as you can, because it’s an event you want to be at next year. No doubt.

[1:01] Q: I see. I didn’t even have to tell you, guys. He’s not even paid to tell you guys, I’m paid to tell you guys that.

[1:08] Perth: Well, you can’t buy experience, can you, Q? I was there this year with this at firsthand and it’s quite phenomenal, an amazing three days. On the back of putting that conference together, as I mentioned, in light of what’s happened, it’s pretty cool to see what Bitcoin Magazine will be able to do next year and in the coming years. If you’re a Bitcoiner or you’re thinking about becoming one, wanting to learn more about Bitcoin and the conference is a place to be, and probably what’s the best feature is just the atmosphere that you have amongst everyone who are willing to chat, which is gorgeous and really refreshing. Everyone there, in some ways, like-minded and willing to share opinions, stories, ideas, and knowledge. It’s fantastic.

[2:08] Q: I know we’re still waiting for Patrick. I don’t want to tease or get ahead of anything, but I do want to maybe ask, it’s bright and early, you guys are getting ready for winter, how was the season for those that maybe didn’t stay up to date with Perth Heat’s baseball season?

[2:28] Perth: Well, unfortunately, last year, it was a little tricky, so I can just say Patrick, he’s online now. If you may just want to put him on this or in the handle there it’s Pleb. We’ve got him online. We’ll just make him live if you’ve got him there.

[2:48] Q: He should be coming up right now.

[2:49] Pleb: Hello, hello!

[2:50] Q: Patrick, how you doing?

[2:51] Pleb: Yeah, I’m doing fantastic.

[2:52] Q: How are you?

[2:53] Pleb: How are you?

[2:53] Q: Wonderful. Thank you for joining us. Thank you both for joining us. We’re really excited. Bitcoin Magazine is to help announce this very exciting announcement the Perth Heat have for the entire world to hear and participate and be a part of, and I’ll let you two take it away.

[3:12] Perth: Ah, thanks. Well, there a couple of little things we’ll touch on in regards to some updates as to what we’ll do throughout the season, but today’s announcement is, we’ve always said that what we do with the team and with the slogan, the Bitcoin baseball team, we really want to be a great representation of the network. We want to hear from the community what would they like to see from the first team in world sport who are operating on a Bitcoin standard. What would they like us? How would they like us to operate? Is there some sort of edge to what we do, how we do it, or how we advance Bitcoin?

So there are quite a few different parts to our operation. One of the smaller parts, but quite interesting ways we present ourselves is with our uniforms. This season we had two jerseys, which were Bitcoin baseball jerseys, the white and black one which had been incredibly popular worldwide in terms of people and fans who wanted to purchase those. For the coming season for 22/23, we thought it was important that we could put it out to the Bitcoin community to design our jersey. As of today, we’re running a competition, which as you said is global. We want you to design our Bitcoin baseball jersey and there’s really no rules or guidelines in terms of how this jersey needs to look or what it has to include.

The guidelines are simple. It can be any color, pattern tone, that you decide, and it can be as subtle or as loud as the individual wants to make it. Traditionally, Perth Heat, if you looked at our colors, they’re red, white, and black in terms of our jerseys, but that’s not to say that this one can’t be orange or it can’t be bright yellow, it can’t be a mixture of those colors or any of that. Be creative. This is a jersey for the Bitcoin community to design. We’re really excited by the combinations that we’re going to see come through.

We’ve just sent through a tweet which has got a link which can go to our website. There’s a template there, which you download, design the jersey, and then send it back to our office and we’ll start sharing those designs as they come through the next couple of weeks and then announce the winner. The other Jersey, which we judge to be the best will be the Bitcoin baseball jersey for 22/23, and that will be one in games on our global broadcast. It’s going to be pretty cool and that’s going to be someone from the Bitcoin community who’s in some ways helping the global adoption of Bitcoin by designing a jersey, which will proudly wear throughout the season, which we are planning on being a championship season.

[6:18] Q: I love it. Very, very exciting. I love the fact that you guys are bringing in fans from all over it. I’m assuming that in the same way that last year’s jerseys were on sale, everyone in the world, these would also, whatever Jersey is selected, would also be the jersey marketed and sold to everyone.

[6:38] Perth: Absolutely. This will be our Bitcoin baseball jersey. Not only will we wear it, but it’ll be online for Bitcoiners around the world to purchase and wear proudly. The Bitcoin community has got so many talented people in so many different sections, departments, areas, were very, very talented and creative group as well. Like I said, my ideas with our marketing team in new balance as to how to put Jersey together for this season, but what we’ll get from the community will be so much better. What excites us so much is that there’s many talented designers throughout the Bitcoin community. Let’s see what we can put together. As said, it doesn’t have to be necessarily loud and have a million Bitcoin logos all over the jersey. Something that’s going quite subtle. Maybe something that looks the sharpest but let’s get the designs coming through. We’ll post them, we’ll get reaction, we’ll get feedback from across the network and through Bitcoin Magazine and it’s got to be pretty powerful, the jersey that we get together and maybe the story that’s attached to it as well.

Also, a really nice part of this exercise is that no doubt some of the jerseys that come back with the designs will also have a really nice story to it as well, which will be great to share. That story can be anything from here. Someone’s journey with Bitcoin, how they got started, who orange pilled, a whole heap of things. As I said, there are no rules with the design. I think that’s pretty important for people to understand. So in different shades of color, textures, patterns, let’s get as creative as we can.

[8:36] Q: This is going to be a lot of fun. I’m really excited to see some of the submissions. I already have a couple people that I’m going to DM and be like, “You should submit something to this.” I’m curious because I’m a loud guy. I like wearing loud clothes. If you saw me in Miami, I looked ridiculous most of the time. But in American sports, they love to make all these ridiculous extra jerseys sometimes that have nothing to do with the colors of the team, but maybe have something more to do with the city. In my mind, you brought up the fact that your colors are synonymous with that of the Miami HEAT, but this last year, I thought the freshest jerseys in the NBA were the Miami Vice jerseys. Obviously, there’s the tie into the show. Is there anything culturally relevant to Perth that maybe you’d love to see incorporated into this as well as Bitcoin?

[9:27] Perth: That’s a really good question. Some from Perth that we could incorporate, probably the state colors. If you looked at that, they’re gold and black. So there’s that attachment to the city, we’re a coastal city. If the jersey was blue, naturally be very different to anything that we’d previously worn that would have a connection, huge mining, and resources, state. So up north, there’s a lot of the red dust coming through, but nothing specific. If it’s a complete contrast or anything we’ve had, we’ll give it more relevance in some ways stand out and people understand. So if this jersey was the most foreign jersey ever seen on a sporting team, well that could become a pretty good marketing play for Bitcoin as well because people around them will be going, “Have you seen that baseball jersey on Perth Heat?”

It’s 27 different colors, become a talking point and how are the Bitcoin baseball team. And then suddenly, the orange peeling process with people that had nothing to do with sport or Bitcoin becomes relevant because they’re introduced to Bitcoin in a different way through what could possibly be the most horrendous jersey that anyone’s ever seen in world sports. As I’ve said, have some fun. I think going to be important, and being created.

[11:01] Q: I apologize in advance for the absurd submission that you’ll receive on my behalf.

[11:08] Perth: No, no, that’s good. Keep it coming on. As I said, we’ll share

them all and we’ll get feedback. I’ve got a feeling that something loud be well-liked.

[11:23] Q: I’d love to expand a little bit. You brought up something, I think that every Bitcoiner loved to discuss and love seeing when teams or people, especially in sports, start to take on Bitcoin. Perth Heat was one of the earliest adopters who’s taking on Bitcoin. We’ve since seen efforts by teams all over the world now, as well as athletes all over the world. I’m curious what the reception locally in Perth has been since your adoption of Bitcoin, what that conversation’s been like with fans as well as community members.

[12:02] Perth: Yeah. Maybe I’ll get Patrick to come on here and speak to this as a Chief Bitcoin Officer who’s been instrumental in our project. I’ve said a couple of times, I think we’ll see change in the world moving forward where it’s no longer the CEO who’s at the top of the C-suite executive will be the CBO. The amount of reference I have with Patrick each day is more than anyone else within the organization. Patrick’s had a lot to do with how we’ve onboarded and what we’ve done. So maybe he can be a best speaker to this one, Pat.

[12:41] Pleb: Yeah. Awesome. Thank you, Steve, and thanks to Bitcoin magazine for having us. I would say the reactions in the beginning locally was one of absolute intrigue. I think we’re past the point where there’s confusion…