Throughout a Christmas rally that has pushed the Bitcoin all time excessive mark ever greater, a pair of latest tweets point out {that a} former critic of the digital foreign money is continuous to take steps in the direction of a full-blown hodler conversion: billionaire investor and proprietor of the Dallas Mavericks Mark Cuban. 

The Tweet got here on December twenty third, when Cuban introduced that followers shopping for Mavericks gear would obtain a 25% low cost once they used Bitcoin to make their buy. Oddly sufficient, nonetheless, the report Cuban linked to as an alternative stated that purchasers who purchase greater than $150 value of drugs utilizing Bitcoin would obtain a $25 reward card, and didn’t point out a 25% low cost:

This reward card provide, in addition to a wider Mavericks coverage of accepting Bitcoin as fee for tickets, strikes some observers as odd given Cuban’s historical past of denigrating the asset. Earlier in 2020 he dusted off a zinger he first fired off in September of 2019: that he prefers bananas to Bitcoin as a commodity. 

Many have described coming round to Bitcoin’s virtues as a store-of-value as a course of and never an occasion, nonetheless, and Cuban appears to be taking the requisite steps.

In a Tweet simply at the moment, Cuban appeared to reward Bitcoin’s programmatic financial coverage, saying that publicly traded firms can be smart to limit their share inflation:

It’s a constructive remark that’s a part of an ongoing, years lengthy about-face that has landed Cuban on Cointelegraph’s listing of Bitcoin critics who’ve withered in 2020. 

Nonetheless, hodlers needs to be cautious about totally welcoming one other member into their ranks. As he progresses in his journey in the direction of onerous cash, Cuban has expressed disdain for what he believes to be “spiritual” zealotry amongst holders hoping for a doomsday situation, and in one more tweet this week, it’s a theme he appeared to riff on, pretending to be one of many trustworthy: