Donald Trump Walks Into a Bar, Buys Round With Bitcoin

If Donald Trump once thought crypto was a "scam," he's all in now. On Wednesday, before his evening rally on Long Island, the former president made a pit stop in New York City at Greenwich Village's PubKey bar, which the Wall Street Journal describes as "a Greenwich Village tavern that is the it spot for crypto enthusiasts." There, Trump talked to the crowd about the SEC and the Teamsters—and also bought $950 worth of diet Cokes and burgers for those in attendance, using bitcoin. PubKey posted a photo of the 78-year-old Trump completing the crypto purchase, with the assistance of some of its staff; Fox News has video.

"It's history, history in the making," Trump boasted after he sent the purchase through. He also noted that the transaction went quickly and "beautifully," per the Journal. CoinDesk claims that with that buy, Trump became "the first US president, sitting or former, to publicly use the bitcoin network." PubKey co-founder Andrew Newman told the Journal that Trump's purchase was a "significant step in bitcoin history," while Mike Germano, who heads up Bitcoin Magazine, said of the ex-commander in chief: "He's now one of us." (More Donald Trump stories.)