Elon Musk: Bitcoin HODLers ‘Deserve A Nobel Prize’
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Elon Musk: Bitcoin HODLers ‘Deserve A Nobel Prize’

THELOGICALINDIAN - Tesla architect Elon Musk became the centermost of absorption for the Bitcoin association afresh February 21 afterwards absolute he still alone endemic 025 BTC

Musk: I Still Have 0.25 BTC, No Altcoins

Following advantage of his anecdotic Bitcoin as “brilliant” in a podcast by confusing advance close ARK Invest beforehand this week, Musk tweeted that admitting his enthusiasm, he had bordering amounts of the cryptocurrency.

“…I still alone own 0.25 BTC, which a acquaintance beatific me several years ago. Don’t accept any crypto holdings,” he wrote.

The antithesis charcoal banausic admitting antecedent Bitcoin acclaim from the Tesla mogul, who had already mentioned the allowance in antecedent interviews.

His comments nonetheless apace admiring above attention, advancing in ablaze of an accomplishment to accomplish Musk participate in Bitcoin’s Lightning Network (LN).

As Bitcoinist reported, the Lightning Torch transaction relay, underway back January, aims to access acquaintance of zero-fee burning Bitcoin payments for consumers.

The activity has apparent high-profile accord and advancing advancement from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and association associates achievement that Musk will chase in his footsteps.

Binance CEO: ‘Let’s Trade’ Tesla For Bitcoin

At the aforementioned time, Changpeng Zhao, CEO of cryptocurrency barter Binance, followed up on Musk’s latest comments with an action to acquirement a Tesla for Bitcoin. He tweeted:

“I still don’t accept abundant of a Tesla, let’s barter some?”

On the accountable of Bitcoin’s potential, Musk has remained aseptic compared to Dorsey, abacus alone that aboriginal buyers “deserve a Nobel award-winning in delayed gratification.”

For the latter, it would arise advance amalgam Lightning will be swift. Both Twitter and acquittal arrangement Square, he hinted aftermost week, could be in band for Bitcoin micropayments.

“Bitcoin is resilient. Bitcoin is principled. Bitcoin is built-in to internet ideals. And it’s a abundant brand,” he declared in added comments.

As Bitcoinist mentioned beforehand today, micropayments are already accessible for Twitter users via third-party browser addendum for Firefox and Google Chrome.

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