President Donald Trump is known for being a crypto-friendly president. He launched his own cryptocurrency right before taking office, and signed an executive order to create a strategic bitcoin reserve in his second month as president. Has he gone so far as to hang the Bitcoin whitepaper in the Oval Office?
That’s what some Facebook posts claim. “The $BTC Whitepaper was spotted at the White House,” a March 22 Facebook post read, referencing the ticker symbol for Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency.
It included a clip of Trump pulling back drapes to reveal a framed paper titled “Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system,” as Fox News host Laura Ingraham looked on.
The Facebook video showed a Fox News chyron that read, “Trump shows Laura the Bitcoin Whitepaper.”
“(You) think Joe Biden would do this? I don’t think so. Do you think he’d think of it? Do you think he knows what it is?” Trump said in the video.
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The Facebook video is edited. In the original clip uploaded March 20 by Fox, Trump showed Ingraham the Declaration of Independence in the Oval Office. The Fox News chyron read, “Trump shows Laura the Declaration of Independence.”
The Bitcoin whitepaper, or the original paper detailing its concept, was written by Satoshi Nakamoto and published in 2009.
A video doesn’t show Trump unveiling the Bitcoin whitepaper at the White House. We rate that claim Pants on Fire!
