Former First Lady Melania Trump congratulates Bitcoin on 13th birthday
Shortly after launching her personal nonfungible token (NFT) challenge final month, former First Woman of the US Melania Trump gave a shout-out to Bitcoin (BTC) on Twitter.
On Monday, Melania wished Bitcoin a cheerful birthday. The world’s largest cryptocurrency marked its thirteenth anniversary on M.
It’s extensively reported that Bitcoin’s market cap exceeds USD$1 Trillion. At this time marks the thirteenth anniversary of the Bitcoin Genesis Block. Glad Anniversary, #SatoshiNakamoto #MelaniaNFT pic.twitter.com/aZqNJFcZmd
— MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) January 3, 2022
The previous First Woman stated, “It’s extensively reported that Bitcoin’s market cap exceeds $1 trillion.”
On the time of writing, BTC’s market capitalization is barely above $880 billion, based on data from CoinGecko. The final time its market worth stood above $1 trillion was in early December final 12 months.
The publish has amassed over 30,000 likes and greater than 8,000 retweets on the time of writing.
Many individuals within the cryptocurrency group, together with Morgan Creek Digital co-founder Anthony Pompliano, subsequently suggested that Mrs. Trump may very well be a “Bitcoiner” or be concerned within the BTC trade.
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Others pointed to main anti-Bitcoin remarks made by Mrs. Trump’s husband, former U.S. President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly slammed Bitcoin lately, calling it a rip-off and arguing that it’s primarily based on “skinny air.”
“It is a fairly cryptic divorce announcement, props,” one observer noted on Twitter.
The previous First Woman formally introduced her NFT platform in mid-December 2021, dropping her first digital collectible referred to as “Melania’s Imaginative and prescient.” In keeping with Melania’s official website, the NFT sale was carried out on the Solana blockchain, with the public sale ending on Friday.