Digital currency
Tesla wants to accept Bitcoin payments
Tesla opens for digital currencies. The Bitcoin is the most famous of these means of payment.
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Who buys a car, usually paid with conventional money. But now a new form of payment will be added: The U.S. electric car maker Tesla plans to accept as the first large companies in the automotive industry as well as digital currencies.
The American electric car maker Tesla wants to accept payments in the crypto currency Bitcoin for the purchase of cars and other products. The message to the U.S. securities and exchange Commission. The group of Elon Musk opens as the first company in the automotive industry for digital currencies.
Tesla expanded investments in crypto currency – Bitcoin price all-time high
In addition, Tesla bought himself Bitcoins with a total value of $ 1.5 billion (1.25 billion euros). In the framework of a new company policy, it was decided that Tesla values in the future, digital assets, but also in Gold and other non-defined financial assets can invest in.
Bitcoin course the news on Monday on the Online trading platform Bitstamp to a record high of more than 43,000 dollars. Tesla-Chef Musk is considered to be a great fan of the most famous Cryptocurrency and fired them already strong, he placed the Hashtag “#Bitcoin” on his Twitter page. In addition, he was made recently for a price jump when originally as a joke currency launched digital money Dogecoin responsible. Musk tweeted repeatedly, and shared, among other things, a title, a picture of a similar-sounding dog magazine (“Douge”).
