Hunter Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, now accepts Bitcoin as payment for his artwork on his official website.
The home page of Hunter Biden’s official website, hunterbiden.com, bears his signature bright, large floral design, while the bottom has a simple but striking message: “BITCOIN ACECEPTED,” written along with links to the site’s password, the password for use is “Verisart Authentication.”
Verisart offers blockchain-based certified certificates designed to document the origin and ownership of art, physical and digital.
Biden’s artistic works have been politically fraught from the start, with the first exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles costing works between 75,000 and 500,000 dollars even though he was an artist.
A subsequent report revealed that another prominent buyer, Democratic donor and Los Angeles realtor Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, was after it. received the presidential election from Joe Biden, and to make people responsible for selling art.
Court records in March 2025 present a very different picture of his current finances: Biden told a federal judge that he now has “a huge debt in the millions of dollars” and was able to sell only one painting for 36,000 dollars as of the end of 2023, after selling 27 works in the previous years for about 55,000 dollars.
He also said that the art sale was the reason why he could no longer pursue other charges against him for distributing materials from his famous laptop.
Hunter Biden: Addiction, tragedy and a life of shame
Hunter Biden’s struggles are rooted in a life marked by early trauma and long-term struggles. He survived a 1972 car accident that killed his mother and infant sister, an event that left him and his brother Beau severely injured and shaped the family’s history for years.
As an adult, Hunter Biden said public speaking about his battles with alcohol and crack cocaine, which escalated after Beau’s death from brain cancer in 2015 and led to several stints in rehab.
These problems became public because of his divorce from Kathleen Buhle, who described repeated relapses and drug abuse, and later because of his relationship with Beau’s widow, Hallie Biden, which led to intense public scrutiny.
In 2018, Hunter Biden gave birth a son by Lunden Roberts, a woman from Arkansas who previously said she did not know; the DNA test confirmed paternity and sparked a long-running fight over child support often cited by Republican opponents.
His foreign ventures brought great returns. Hunter Biden they contacted each other The board of the Ukrainian oil company Burisma in 2014, it is said that he earns 1.2 million dollars a year while his father manages the policies of Ukraine, and he is also involved in Chinese businesses. Republicans he says This arrangement gained access to Joe Biden.
The controversy escalated after files from Biden’s laptop allegedly leaked to be abandoned at a Delaware dealership they appeared, apparently showing drug use and discussing foreign trade.
Federal prosecutors charged him separately with failing to pay more than $1.4 million in taxes and lying about his drug use during a 2018 shooting; he was convicted of three gun charges in 2024 before he received the presidency forgiveness from his father.
