{"id":84758,"date":"2024-09-18T23:14:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T23:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/18\/donald-trump-makes-historic-bitcoin-payment-at-pubkey\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T23:14:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T23:14:15","slug":"donald-trump-makes-historic-bitcoin-payment-at-pubkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/18\/donald-trump-makes-historic-bitcoin-payment-at-pubkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Makes Historic Bitcoin Payment At PubKey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/.image\/c_fit%2Ch_800%2Cw_1200\/MjA5MzgzNjQ3MDQ2ODA1MTQy\/img_7679.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, history was made as President Donald Trump became the first US president to make a Bitcoin payment.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BitcoinMagazine\/status\/1836511791557341250\"><\/a>\n                    <\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>The former President showed up to PubKey, a Bitcoin-themed bar located in the heart of Greenwich Village, New York City, to purchase some cheeseburgers (on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldaycalendar.com\/national-day\/national-cheeseburger-day-september-18\">National Cheeseburger Day<\/a>) at the establishment, which was packed with Bitcoin enthusiasts there to welcome him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a great place,\u201d Trump said to Bitcoin Magazine about PubKey, before urging the types of Bitcoin enthusiasts who frequent the bar to vote this November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGet out and vote, because if you vote, we cannot lose. We want to get everybody that agrees with you people \u2014 and there\u2019s a lot of people \u2014 [to vote],\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve been treating you very badly at the SEC, and we\u2019re going to treat you very fairly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the payment, Trump said it was easy to make and that it went through \u201cquickly and beautifully.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PubKey_NYC\/status\/1836510708634390680\"><\/a>\n                    <\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>After making the transaction, Trump, escorted by one of the bar\u2019s owners, Thomas Pacchia, introduced himself to all in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was one of the most important Bitcoin transactions of all time,\u201d said Pacchia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump came to PubKey to connect with the Bitcoin community \u2014 to show his support to the Bitcoin community,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very excited he was here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/politics\/donald-trump-makes-historic-bitcoin-payment-at-pubkey\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, history was made as President Donald Trump became the first US president to make a Bitcoin payment. The former President showed up to PubKey,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}