Trump Launches Fifth Digital Trading Card Collection on Bitcoin Blockchain

President-elect Donald Trump has turned to Bitcoin Ordinals for his fifth batch of digital trading cards. The latest collection is called Trump Bitcoin Digital Trading Cards.

The collection launched with 160 cards, only available to owners of 100 NFT cards from the previous “Mugshot Edition” collection. Buyers of 47 of those cards received a physical card with a swatch of the suit Trump wore when his mugshot was taken after being arrested in Georgia.

The Trump Bitcoin Digital Trading Cards launched on Jan. 9 and can be claimed through Jan. 31. The full collection will eventually consist of 200 cards.

There are currently 21 Trump Bitcoin Digital Trading Cards for sale on the NFT marketplace Magic Eden. The cheapest one is listed for 0.177 BTC ($17,000).

This is Trump’s first foray into Ordinals. Similar to NFTs, they allow for arbitrary data to be inscribed onto the Bitcoin blockchain, concatenating data to an individual satoshi (the smallest denomination of a Bitcoin).

Trump’s Crypto Pivot

Trump’s first collection of digital trading card NFTs has done well, with CryptoSlam reporting sales volume of $24.3 million across 56,000 sales and 14,000 owners. It dropped in December 2022. The full collection sold out in less than a day, pulling in some $4.5 million for the then ex-President.

That was his first substantial embrace of cryptocurrencies after previously criticizing Bitcoin as “based on thin air” in 2019.

Since then, Trump has become a champion of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, particularly during the leadup to his election victory. He called himself the pro-crypto candidate and even gave a keynote at the Bitcoin2024 conference in July, promising “to ensure that the United States will be the crypto capital of the planet and the Bitcoin superpower of the world.”

In September, he launched his own DeFi project, World Liberty Financial, while promising to make America “the crypto capital of the world” and embracing stablecoins.

The crypto community has returned the embrace, donating piles of money to his campaign and bidding Bitcoin up past $100,000 in the wake of his victory.