{"id":173343,"date":"2021-02-08T17:39:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T14:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tesla-buys-1-5b-in-bitcoin-plans-to-accept-it-as-payment\/"},"modified":"2021-02-08T17:39:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T14:39:58","slug":"tesla-buys-1-5b-in-bitcoin-plans-to-accept-it-as-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tesla-buys-1-5b-in-bitcoin-plans-to-accept-it-as-payment\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, plans to accept it as payment"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, plans to accept it as payment<\/strong>”
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Bitcoin surged to an all-time high Monday after Tesla said it bought $1.5 billion worth of the cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n

The digital coin climbed<\/a> 16 percent from a day earlier to a record of $44,801.87 after Elon Musk\u2019s electric-car maker revealed the hefty investment in a regulatory filing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tesla also said it expects to start taking Bitcoin as payment for its products \u201cin the near future,\u201d adding that it could liquidate any crypto payments it receives.<\/p>\n

The surprise announcement was the latest sign of Bitcoin\u2019s growing support among companies and institutional investors, a trend that\u2019s helped drive up its price in recent months.<\/p>\n

Musk himself endorsed Bitcoin last week, saying it\u2019s \u201con the verge of getting broad acceptance by conventional finance people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m late to the party but I\u2019m a supporter of Bitcoin,\u201d he said on the Clubhouse audio-chat app<\/a>, according to CNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Musk first mused about getting Tesla into the Bitcoin market in a December Twitter<\/a> exchange with MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor, whose business-intelligence firm bought more than $1 billion worth of the digital currency last year.<\/p>\n

Tesla said it bought Bitcoin after tweaking its investment policy last month to \u201cfurther diversify and maximize returns\u201d on cash that isn\u2019t essential to its operating liquidity. <\/p>\n

But the world\u2019s most valuable automaker noted that its new cryptocurrency holdings come with several risks, including the wild price swings that have been a major feature of Bitcoin\u2019s relatively short history.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe prevalence of such assets is a relatively recent trend, and their long-term adoption by investors, consumers and businesses is unpredictable,\u201d Tesla said in its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoreover, their lack of a physical form, their reliance on technology<\/a> for their creation, existence and transactional validation and their decentralization may subject their integrity to the threat of malicious attacks and technological obsolescence.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the move could boost Tesla\u2019s stock price as investors incorporate the company\u2019s exposure to cryptocurrency into its overall valuation, according to Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives. Tesla shares rose about 2.2 percent on the news<\/a> in premarket trading to $871 as of 9:03 a.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, investors and other industry watchers will be watching this closely to see if other corporations follow the lead of Tesla on this crypto path,\u201d Ives wrote in a research note.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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