Home » Business » Tesla bitcoin purchase worth 16 trillion won… Also supported as a payment method

Tesla bitcoin purchase worth 16 trillion won… Also supported as a payment method

Tesla purchased $1.5 billion in Bitcoin (about 1,681.5 billion won). Tesla’s car sales will also be paid in bitcoin.

Tesla made this statement in a data filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

“We bought bitcoins to diversify our assets and make more money on our cash assets,” Tesla said.

After Tesla’s SEC documents were reported on that day, the price of Bitcoin has been on the rise. On this day, the bitcoin price was traded at $42,644, an increase of about 13% compared to 24 hours ago. At the beginning of last month, it exceeded the high of $42,000 and hit an all-time high.

Tesla said in a SEC filing on the day that “in the future, additional assets can be invested in digital assets.”

Some pointed out that recently, Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive officer (CEO), launched a “virtual currency launch” on Twitter before this.

CNBC reported, “In recent weeks, CEO Musk has posted an article on cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Dogecoin through Twitter,” said CNBC.

“Bitcoin is a good thing,” Musk’s CEO appeared at the social media clubhouse earlier this year. At the end of last year, he posted the hashtag’bitcoin’ on his Twitter.

Reporter Sun Han-gyeol [email protected]

Ⓒ Hankyung.com prohibits unauthorized reproduction and redistribution


Leave a Comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.