A Turkish amateur league football club has transferred a player by paying him with Bitcoin, in what the club chairman says is the first signing of a player in cryptocurrency.
Harunustaspor chairman Haldun Sehit told Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency late on Tuesday that the club paid player Omer Faruk Kiroglu Bitcoin (0.0534 Bitcoin) worth 2000 Turkish liras ($A756), in addition to 2000 Turkish Lira.
Sehit told Anadolu the club decided to sign Kiroglu with the cryptocurrency to make the team known "in Turkey and the world".
"God willing, Bitcoin will bring us the championship."
The club compete in the first division of Sakarya's Amateur League.
