Prominent bitcoin investor and podcast host Peter McCormack announced in a lengthy threaded tweet on Thursday that he has purchased professional English soccer club Bedford FC and become its chairman. McCormack, who grew up in Bedford, said his hope is to eventually get the team promoted from England’s lowly tenth division all the way to the Premier League. He is recruiting fellow bitcoin investors and companies to contribute funds to lure better players and managers and quickly improve the club. “I am a bitcoiner, we aim big. If we can separate money and state, we can get a football club into the Premier League,” ... (full story)