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Cryptocurrency: You can now use bitcoin to buy a Tesla

by NewsNet Nigeria
5 years ago
in Economy, World News
Cryptocurrency: You can now use bitcoin to buy a Tesla
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Bitcoin fans looking for ways to spend their cryptocurrency fortunes can add a big ticket item to the list: a Tesla.

“You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin,” CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet on Wednesday.

Bitcoin paid to Tesla (TSLA) will not be converted by the electric car company into regular currency, he added in a subsequent tweet. Musk said that the option to pay by bitcoin will be available outside the United States later this year.

The price of a single bitcoin climbed nearly 3% to hit $56,242 shortly after Musk’s tweet — more than enough to buy an entry level Tesla Model 3, which costs just under $40,000. Tesla’s most expensive vehicle, the Model X Plaid, starts at around $120,000 — slightly more than two bitcoin.

Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, said “this is a seminal moment for Tesla and for the crypto world.”
“We expect less than 5% of transactions to be through Bitcoin over the next 12 to 18 months however this could move higher over time as crypto acceptance starts to ramp over the coming years,” he added.

Tesla (TSLA) had previously signalled its plans to accept digital currency from buyers. In its annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last month, the company said that it expects “to begin accepting bitcoin as a form of payment for our products in the near future … initially on a limited basis.”

It also said it had invested $1.5 billion in bitcoin as part of a strategy to “invest a portion of [the company’s] cash in certain specified alternative reserve assets.”

Since then, the company has given Zach Kirkhorn, its chief financial officer, a new title: “Master of Coin.” Musk, meanwhile, gained the extra title of “Technoking of Tesla”, according to a SEC filing.

Musk, who has in the past expressed scepticism about cryptocurrencies, said in an interview on social app Clubhouse earlier this year that he thinks bitcoin is on the verge of “getting broad acceptance by conventional finance people.” He said he should have bought the digital currency eight years ago.

Source/Author: CNN

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