This article originally appeared on Business Insider.
It was a celebrity-filled Super Bowl.
We saw Tim Cook hit a position of power. We saw Taylor Swift picking her nails AND banging a drink. And we saw Jack Dorsey in a t-shirt that he’s causing a stir on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Dorsey, the platform’s co-founder and former CEO, was photographed in the stands sitting with Beyoncé and Jay-Z.
The tech mogul’s clothing choice is getting as much attention as his fellow A-listers (and, oh yeah, the A-list event they were at). That’s because Dorsey can be seen wearing a black T-shirt with “Satoshi” written in yellow letters.
JUST IN: Jack Dorsey spotted wearing a Satoshi #Bitcoin shirt al #SuperBowl ? pic.twitter.com/oDUySC5p7X
— Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) February 12, 2024
Two things to note here:
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Satoshi Nakamoto is said to be the inventor of bitcoin. Very little is known about Satoshi, including whether Satoshi is a person or a group of people, but he is credited with writing the original white paper on bitcoin.
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The shirt is a riff on Nirvana’s iconic Smiley Face logo, which, like Satoshi, has equally apocryphal origins.
#bitcoin he made an appearance after all!#satoshi @Jack #BTC pic.twitter.com/ECxJNSNtBr
— ?φ? (@phisharkk) February 12, 2024
Dorsey has been a vocal supporter of bitcoin for years. In 2021, he tweeted: “Bitcoin changes *everything*… for the better.”
He was involved in a public and prolonged spat with Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, on which of the two cryptocurrencies is better.
In June 2022, he and Jay-Z launched Bitcoin Academy, a free 12-week educational course for people living in Marcy Houses, the public housing complex in Brooklyn where Jay-Z grew up.
The two have been spotted together over the years in locations ranging 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, check out this handy story of their relationship written by my colleague Avery Hartmans a couple of years ago.)
If you were hoping to get your hands on one of those t-shirts, Etsy, as usual, has your back. As of this writing, though, that exact item was already in 15 carts, so if Dorsey is your personal style icon, you’d better hurry.