The launch of new Donald Trump cryptocurrency tokens worth $ 10,000 each has been announced

The notorious American businessman and US presidential candidate Donald Trump has been added to the Ordinals protocol. The team behind Trump’s collectible cards said that they are launching another NFT collection. However, it will now appear on the BTC network.

It is reported that only 200 unique NFTs will be minted. Only those who purchase 100 or more issues from Trump’s previous collection, the Mugshot Edition, will be able to get them. That is, the user will have to pay $ 9,900 for the Ordinals alone, since Trump tokens are sold for $ 99.

Trump’s latest NFT collection was launched in December on the Polygon blockchain. It was possible to pay for the tokens directly from the card or using WETH. The novelty is likely to stimulate the sale of the Mugshot Edition. Holders will not be able to trade Ordinals and exchange them until December 2024. The same applies to users who purchased NFTs from the Mugshot Edition collection. According to Trump’s team, this measure is intended to limit the attractiveness of such tokens as an «investment».

Earlier in an interview with Fox Business, the politician called digital assets «a scam and an extremely dangerous thing.» «I have never been attracted to cryptocurrency because I like the dollar. I’ve never been a big fan of it,» Trump said at the time. However, in August, it became known that Donald Trump had invested more than $ 2.8 million in cryptocurrencies. The former US president also earned $ 4.87 million in license fees from his NFT Trump Digital Trading Cards collection.

Interestingly, in his campaign speech this year, Trump called central bank-owned cryptocurrencies a threat to human freedom. «As your president, I will never allow the creation of a central bank digital currency. Such a currency would give the federal government absolute control over your money. This could be a dangerous threat to the freedom of every person, and I will not allow this to happen in America,» the politician said.