THELOGICALINDIAN - Tesla CEO Elon Musk has hinted how abounding bitcoins Tesla owns afterwards absolute that the fair bazaar amount of its bitcoin backing was 147 billion as of June 30
Tesla Holding About 42K Bitcoins
Tesla’s technoking, Elon Musk, has commented on how abounding bitcoins his electric car aggregation owns in acknowledgment to a asperous adding provided on Twitter by Tesla actor Dave Lee.
In his calculation, Lee acclimated $1.47 billion as the fair bazaar amount of Tesla’s absolute bitcoin backing as apparent in the company’s Form 10-Q filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Tesla wrote:
Lee additionally acclimated the amount of bitcoin at abutting on June 30, which was about $35,040. On that day, the aerial of the BTC amount was $35,189.75 and the low was 34,155.90 based on abstracts from Bitcoin.com Markets.
His appraisal suggests that Tesla is captivation 42,069 BTC. Musk after replied: “We don’t accept that abounding bitcoin, but it’s close.”
Tesla bought bitcoin account $1.5 billion in the aboriginal quarter. The aggregation additionally began accepting the cryptocurrency as a agency of acquittal in March but chock-full in May citation environmental concerns. However, Musk said at a contempo bitcoin event, “The B Word,” that Tesla will acceptable resume accepting bitcoin.
At the end of the additional quarter, the aggregation appear its bitcoin backing account $1.311 billion afterwards impairments. In April, the electric car company’s bitcoin backing was account $2.5 billion.
Not alone does Tesla own bitcoin, but Musk additionally revealed during the B Word accident that he alone owns BTC, as does his added company, Spacex. Musk additionally owns ether and dogecoin.
According to a account of bitcoin treasuries, the alone accessible aggregation that owns added bitcoin than Tesla is Microstrategy. Led by the pro-bitcoin Michael Saylor, Microstrategy has fabricated accumulating BTC one of its primary objectives. The aggregation currently hodls about 105,085 bitcoins.
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