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As we all remember, Elon Musk and Tesla shocked the world when back in February, they purchased approximately $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency by market cap. The company was one of the first institutions to add the digital currency to its balance sheet. Today, that $1.5 billion is worth approximately $2.5 billion, meaning Musk and Tesla have grown by about $1 billion in just eight months. Elon Musk Made the Right Choice to Hold...

Tesla fans can once again purchase their next vehicles with crypto, though it really has nothing to do with Elon Musk. You Can Buy a Tesla with Crypto, But Musk Isn’t Involved The payment protocols come by way of a new company called Car for Coin, a digital currency marketplace designed to help crypto collectors purchase exotic and rare vehicles with their assets. Among the vehicles for sale on the site are Lamborghinis and, of course, electric Teslas. While there is...

Microstrategy just bagged $177M more BTC between July 1st and August 23rd. That brings Michael Saylor’s company’s total hodlings to $5.3 billion USD worth of bitcoin. Other big corporate buyers include Tesla, Square, and Galaxy Digital Holdings. The business intelligence company can’t get enough bitcoin. And it’s not the only extremely relevant and proactive company in the high tech or investing sector to be this incredibly bullish Bitcoin. In fact, Michael Saylor says he was...

Crypto mining firm Argo Blockchain has become the first official company of its kind to release a climate plan to carry it through the future. Argo Blockchain Is Looking to Be More Environmentally Friendly The idea of crypto mining is necessary to ensure digital blockchains are consistently supplied with new tokens. However, the process has been quite controversial over the past few months given that it is allegedly causing irreversible damage to the planet according to...

In a public filing last Tuesday, electric car company Tesla and its CEO – South African entrepreneur Elon Musk – revealed that they have lost more than $1 billion in bitcoin. Musk and Tesla’s BTC Stash Has Gone Down the Tubes The company’s balance sheet grew by approximately $1.5 billion in BTC last February, and within two months, bitcoin had reached a new all-time high, jumping from the low $50,000 range to about $64,000 per unit. However, things took an ugly turn from...

Bitcoin has spiked like there’s no tomorrow. After several weeks of dealing with bearish activity, the world’s number one digital currency by market cap has surged all the way to the mid-$38,000 range. The jump appears to have something to do with Amazon, the biggest retailer in the world, and its potential decision to begin its own cryptocurrency and accept bitcoin as a payment method before the year is out. Amazon Suggests It Will Accept BTC Amazon is arguably the...

Bitcoin saw a great few days following the B Word event where Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and Cathie Wood spoke quite fondly of it. It’s up 15% in five days, and it appears to be preparing for a test of $34K. Bitcoin Price Gaining 15% In a Few Days This was a very turbulent week for bitcoin’s price, which didn’t seem like it was off to a good start a few days ago. In fact, on Tuesday, the price plummeted down to around $29,200, causing nothing but fear and panic in the market....

It’s safe to say that this was a rather intense week in the cryptocurrency market, despite Bitcoin being only about 2% up throughout the period. Things started off rather calmly, and the market was pretty flat until Monday. Bears took control and brought the price down to slightly above $30K before landing the final blow on Tuesday and pushing BTC below $30,000. It was on Wednesday, though, when the highly-anticipated B Word event took place, which saw Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey,...

Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey finally had their face-to-face talk about Bitcoin at “The B Word” event today. Joined by Cathie Wood and moderated by Steve Lee, their long-awaited talk was largely bullish all around – including on Bitcoins energy use, which Elon says he is now more optimistic about. The three began by citing what got them interested in Bitcoin. Elon saw it as an improvement to the “information system” that supports the economy as a whole On Scalability, Musk admits...

Bitcoin has been crashing as of late, and for many people, the main reason has to do with Elon Musk. Last month, the South African entrepreneur announced that he was rescinding a decision that his electric car company Tesla was going to accept bitcoin-based payments for goods and services. It’s Hard to Know What Elon Musk Was Thinking This was a hard blow for many traders given that this would have sent bitcoin spinning into a wild price frenzy. In addition, it would...