Haunted by Past Elon Musk Predictions, Gold Bug Peter Schiff Tears Into Tesla's BTC Acquisition
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Haunted by Past Elon Musk Predictions, Gold Bug Peter Schiff Tears Into Tesla's BTC Acquisition

THELOGICALINDIAN - After ahead claiming that Elon Musk was too acute to buy bitcoin Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff is reacting angrily to letters that Tesla has acquired the cryptocurrency In a alternation of tweets on February 8 Schiff now claims that Musk has no absorption in bitcoins abundance of amount accreditation but is alone absorbed in pumping the crypto

Haunted by Past Elon Musk Predictions, Gold Bug Peter Schiff Tears Into Tesla's BTC Acquisition

BTC Bias Allegations

In its filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Tesla says it absitively to access bitcoin because it fits with the company’s adapted advance policy. According to the company, this new policy, which provides Tesla with the adaptability to alter and maximise allotment on abandoned cash, authorizes the aggregation to buy gold banknote as well.

Haunted by Past Elon Musk Predictions, Gold Bug Peter Schiff Tears Into Tesla's BTC Acquisition

However, in one of his tweets, Schiff appears to booty aim at Musk and Tesla for allotment to advertise the BTC accretion while not advertence annihilation about gold. Schiff says:

Immediately afterward Tesla’s acquisition, BTC’s amount acicular with the top crypto ambience another best aerial (ATH) of aloof aloft $48,000. After Tesla’s acquisition, some bitcoiners now predict the crypto asset will ability $100,000 by anniversary as added ample institutions accompany the affairs frenzy.

BTC Not Crashing

Meanwhile, Schiff, who has predicted BTC’s crash on abundant occasions, additionally attacks the boilerplate banking media for “doing aggregate it can to promote” bitcoin at the amount of gold. In particular, the gold bug is black with the U.S. arrangement CNBC’s advantage of Tesla’s bitcoin acquisition. Schiff says:

In the meantime, on Twitter, user Peter Elon is quick to admonish Schiff that in aloof beneath 48 hours afterwards the announcement, Tesla’s BTC advance is already $150 actor up. Another user, Anthony Kloda explains why Schiff is rattled. He says:

“Peter is ashamed because the bitcoin anecdotal currently is agenda gold and he’s abashed of an institutional about-face from concrete gold to bitcoin active bottomward gold administration position as the ascendant aggrandizement hedge. In my opinion, there is added than abundant allowance for both.”

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