{"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