Tesla buys $1.5 billion in Bitcoin, will settle for as fee quickly

Image Source : AP FILE – In this Dec. 1, 2020, file photograph, SpaceX proprietor and Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives on the crimson carpet for the Axel Springer media award, in Berlin. Tesla says it has invested greater than $1 billion in Bitcoin and can settle for the digital forex as fee for its electrical automobiles. In a regulatory submitting Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, Musk’s electrical car firm mentioned its board authorised of the $1.5 billion funding and probably extra sooner or later.
 
Tesla has acquired round $1.5 billion in Bitcoin underneath an funding coverage on the electrical automotive maker headed by Elon Musk, and it plans to start accepting the digital forex as fee for automobiles quickly.
The California firm revealed the brand new technique in a submitting with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission early Monday, saying its funding in digital forex and different “alternative reserve assets” might develop.
Bitcoin spiked 14% and appeared to briefly hit a brand new all-time excessive. Shares of Tesla moved larger as properly.

In its fourth quarter earnings report final month Tesla mentioned it had money and money equivalents of $19.4 billion.
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