{"id":62521,"date":"2022-01-04T17:49:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/melania-trump-ex-first-lady-promotes-bitcoin-and-people-were-baffled\/"},"modified":"2022-01-04T17:49:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T12:19:08","slug":"melania-trump-ex-first-lady-promotes-bitcoin-and-people-were-baffled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/melania-trump-ex-first-lady-promotes-bitcoin-and-people-were-baffled\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump: Ex-First Lady promotes Bitcoin and people were baffled"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Melania Trump is now apparently shilling Bitcoin weeks after launching her own non-fungible token (NFT) venture.<\/p>\n

Tweeting yesterday from her official account, the former first lady wrote: \u201cIt is widely reported that Bitcoin\u2019s market cap exceeds USD$1 Trillion. Today marks the 13th anniversary of the Bitcoin Genesis Block. Happy Anniversary. #SatoshiNakamoto #MelaniaNFT.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bitcoin was launched in January 2009 by pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s tweet follows news that Bitcoin\u2019s mining hashrate – a metric measuring the total computational power used to process transactions – hit an all-time high ahead of the cryptocurrency\u2019s 13th anniversary over the weekend.<\/p>\n

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People seemed perplexed by her tweet, with some questioning how much she knows about the cryptocurrency:<\/p>\n

Her apparent backing of Bitcoin follows Trump launching her own NFT endeavour, offering a watercolour painting of her eyes<\/u> and a complimentary voice message.<\/p>\n

Created by artist Marc-Antonie Coulon, the digital artwork titled \u201cMelania\u2019s Vision\u201d was up for sale during December costing one unit of SOL cryptocurrency (approximately $150) and included an audio recording with a \u201cmessage of hope\u201d.<\/p>\n

Her husband former US President Donald Trump seemingly attempted to advertise the digital asset while also slamming cryptocurrencies in a recent interview.<\/u><\/p>\n

He said: \u201cLook, I want a currency called the dollar, I don\u2019t want to have all these others \u2014 and that can be an explosion someday like the likes of which we\u2019ve never seen. It\u2019ll make the big tech explosion look like baby stuff. I think it\u2019s a very dangerous thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

In June 2021, he also said Bitcoin \u201cseems like a scam\u201d<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI don\u2019t like it because it\u2019s another currency competing against the dollar\u2026 I want the dollar to be the currency of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Melania Trump is now apparently shilling Bitcoin weeks after launching her own non-fungible token (NFT) venture. Tweeting yesterday from her official account, the former first lady wrote: \u201cIt is widely reported that Bitcoin\u2019s market cap exceeds USD$1 Trillion. Today marks the 13th anniversary of the Bitcoin Genesis Block. Happy Anniversary. #SatoshiNakamoto #MelaniaNFT.\u201d Bitcoin was launched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":62522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1641298749_Melania-Trump-Ex-First-Lady-promotes-Bitcoin-and-people-were-baffled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}