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8BitcoinNewJun 16, 2026

Trump Makes First Presidential Bitcoin Purchase

US President Donald Trump made a Bitcoin purchase, described as the first such transaction by a sitting US president. The purchase occurred on June 16, 2026.

Trump's BTC: the receipt that can't be repealed

Trump bought burgers at a Bitcoin bar in Manhattan by scanning a QR code. That transaction — block height 861871 — is now permanently written into Bitcoin's ledger.

No policy reversal touches it. Whatever Trump does or doesn't do for crypto from the Oval Office, a sitting US president has used Bitcoin as money, and the blockchain says so forever.

For a long thesis built on Bitcoin as sound money rather than a speculative token, that's not nothing. It's the strongest possible proof of concept: ordinary commerce, ordinary people, no intermediary.

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