Okung has managed to get hundreds of people to do it, but more recently the NFL player started a decent train of celebrities with very large Twitter follower counts to join the bandwagon too.

Russell Okung: 'Plant the Flag to Declare You're Ready for the Future'

Last week, Elon Musk put the Bitcoin hashtag in his Twitter bio, and after he did that, the price of bitcoin (BTC) coincidently saw significant gains. Musk also tweeted, "In retrospect, it was inevitable," and a great number of crypto supporters celebrated the Tesla founder's social media teases. After Musk did this on Twitter, the NFL player who plays offensive tackle for the Carolina Panthers, Russell Okung told his Twitter followers to follow Musk's recent move.

"Everyone put #Bitcoin in your bio," Okung tweeted. "Plant the flag to declare you're ready for the future. Send me a screenshot so I know it's real," the football player wrote. The football player is also well known for recently telling the world that he chose to take half of his U.S. 13 million-dollar NFL salary in bitcoin payments.