This article originally appeared on Business Insider.
It was a Super Bowl filled with celebrities.
I saw Tim Cook hit it. power stance.saw taylor swift pick her nails and slam Drink. And I saw Jack Dorsey wearing his shirt trending on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Dorsey, the platform's co-founder and former CEO, was photographed sitting in the stands with Beyoncé and Jay-Z.
The tech mogul's sartorial choices have garnered just as much attention as his A-list pals (and, yes, the A-list events they've attended). That's because Dorsey is seen wearing a black T-shirt with “Satoshi” written on it in yellow letters.
Just in: Spotting Jack Dorsey wearing Satoshi #bitcoin shirt #Super Bowl ? pic.twitter.com/oDUySC5p7X
— Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) February 12, 2024
There are two things to note here.
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Satoshi Nakamoto is said to be the inventor of Bitcoin. Little is known about Satoshi, or even whether he is an individual or a collective, but he is credited with writing the original white paper on Bitcoin.
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This shirt features the iconic Nirvana smiley face logo and, like Satoshi, has an unknown origin.
#bitcoin It has finally appeared!#Satoshi @Jack #BTC pic.twitter.com/ECxJNSNtBr
— ?φ? (@phishakk) February 12, 2024
Dorsey has been a vocal supporter of Bitcoin for years. In 2021, he tweeted, “Bitcoin will change *everything*…for the better.”
He was involved in a prolonged public spat with Vitalik Buterin. Ethereum co-founder, which of the two cryptocurrencies is better?
In June 2022, he and Jay-Z launched Bitcoin Academy. It's a 12-week free educational course aimed at residents of Marcy House, the Brooklyn public housing complex where Jay-Z grew up.
The two have been spotted together over the years, from the Hamptons to Hawaii. In March 2021, Dorsey's Square purchased a majority stake in Jay-Z's Tidal for nearly $300 million. (For more on that, check out this handy history of their relationship that my colleague Avery Hartmans wrote a few years ago.)
If you're looking to get your hands on one of these shirts for yourself, Etsy has your back, as always. However, as of this writing, that item was already in her 15 cart, so if Dorsey is your personal style icon, you'd better hurry.
