đš Donald Trump is the first sitting president to use Bitcoin for payments đš
đFormer US President Donald Trump continued to draw attention from the crypto industry on Wednesday when he made a Bitcoin transaction at PubKey, a crypto-themed bar in New York.
đTrump stopped by the Manhattan bar before heading to a campaign rally in Long Island on Wednesday. A Fox News video shows the Republican candidate entering the bar and, with the help of PubKey staff, completing the transaction via the Lightning network, becoming the first sitting or former US president to publicly use the Bitcoin network. According to a PubKey social media post, Trump bought a burger at the bar.
đHis appearance at PubKey comes two days after Trump publicly endorsed World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency project in which he and some of his children are involved. World Liberty officially launched on Monday and confirmed it will issue a governance token called WLFI.
