American Bitcoin miner MARA has put a portrait of newly-elected President Donald Trump on the cryptocurrency’s blockchain ahead of his return to the White House.
In a Friday post on President-elect Trump has said he will help the digital asset industry and is widely supported by Bitcoiners.
The president-elect’s portrait is located at block 879.613. The company, which trades on the Nasdaq, added that it has also enshrined the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution in the bloc.
“Bitcoin’s commitment to freedom aligns with America’s eternal principles,” the company said. “Using our own MARA pool, we have permanently embedded the Bill of Rights and the United States Constitution into this block, preserving them on the Bitcoin network in perpetuity.”
Images and text can be inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain – which consists of blocks of transaction information – via the NFT-like Ordinals protocol, but what MARA did is different.
Since the miner controls which transactions are processed, he was able to select certain data corresponding to different colors to shape the portrait of the president-elect. In other words, what you’re seeing is a deliberate arrangement of data to create the image of Trump, similar to collages that use hundreds or thousands of small images to create a larger portrait of someone.
Bitcoin miners process transactions and blocks that are part of the cryptocurrency’s public ledger. Such operations are typically large warehouses full of computers that keep the network running, due to the increasing difficulty of mining Bitcoin.
Newly elected President Donald Trump campaigned on helping the digital asset industry and even made a promise to specifically help Bitcoiners, claiming that all remaining coins should be mined on US soil.
Bitcoin’s price has soared following Trump’s shock victory on November 5, reaching a new all-time high of over $108,000 in December. Bitcoin reached nearly $106,000 on Friday during a pre-inauguration peak, closing in on its peak price.
Edited by Andrew Hayward
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