American Bitcoin miner MARA has put a portrait of President-elect Donald Trump onto the cryptocurrency’s blockchain ahead of his return to the White House.
In a Friday post on X (formerly known as Twitter), the publicly traded company said it had put the portrait of the soon-to-be-returning leader on the block to “honor” his impending inauguration on Monday. President-elect Trump has said he will help the digital asset industry and has been widely supported by Bitcoiners.
The portrait of the President-elect appears on block 879,613. The company, which trades on the Nasdaq, added that it also embedded the Bill of Rights and U.S. Constitution in the block.
“Bitcoin’s commitment to freedom aligns with America’s eternal principles,” the company said. “Using our proprietary MARA Pool, we permanently embedded the Bill of Rights and U.S. Constitution into this block, preserving them forever on the Bitcoin network.”
Images and text can be inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain—which is made up of blocks containing transaction information—via the NFT ($0.00)-like Ordinals protocol, but what MARA did is different.
Because the miner controls which transactions are processed, …
