On March 13, Elon Musk said that Dogecoin might be accepted as a payment method for Tesla “at some point.” The comments came while Musk was addressing the public at a Tesla manufacturing plant in Berlin. Musk was asked by an audience member if the electric vehicles can be bought using DOGE in the near...Read More
Arkham Intelligence has revealed that Tesla currently possesses 11.51K BTC, valued at $780 million, distributed across 68 addresses, while SpaceX holds 8.29K BTC, totaling $560 million, spread across 28 wallets. These findings are substantiated by on-chain fund flows that align with financial disclosures from both companies. Tesla and SpaceX’s Vaults: $1.34B in BTC Holdings Laid...Read More
The Spanish data protection regulator, AEPD, has instructed Worldcoin to halt the collection of personal data in the country through scans and to refrain from utilizing any data already obtained. This precautionary action was announced on Wednesday after receiving numerous complaints regarding Worldcoin since last summer. These include concerns about the adequacy of information provided...Read More
Bitcoin prices surged to $65,500 in early trading on Monday, March 4. The move has pushed the asset to its highest price since November 2021 and just 5% away from its all-time high, which also came that month. Moreover, BTC has now gained more than 300% from its cycle low of just below $16,000 in...Read More
Tesla has disclosed that it refrained from buying or selling any of its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings during the fourth quarter of 2023. This marks the sixth consecutive quarter without Bitcoin transactions for the electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer. Tesla’s Q4 Report The latest Q4 report did not mention Bitcoin, implying that the company did not sell...Read More
Tesla’s Q3 2023 financial report reveals that the company did not trade or sell any Bitcoin during the last three months. As of Sept. 30, Tesla still possesses around 9,720 BTC, valued at approximately $275.6 million based on current market rates. Tesla Still Holds its Bitcoin According to Tesla’s recently released Q3 2023 financial report,...Read More
Bitcoin flash crashed to about $25.3k in an unexpected downturn triggering severe liquidations for traders. The bloodbath follows Evergrande’s bankruptcy, but it’s the SpaceX write-down that has taken center stage. Certain documents have emerged that reportedly provided a rare insight into the financials of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, revealing that the space company wrote down the...Read More
Technology entrepreneur, philanthropist, and co-founder of multinational technology giant Apple, Steve Wozniak, has criticized Elon Musk, billionaire CEO of Tesla and also owner and CEO of Twitter, for failing to fulfill the promise to launch self-driving cars. Wozniak also said Tesla could kill, referring to the car model as an example of artificial intelligence (AI)...Read More
The electric vehicle giant Tesla did not buy or sell any BTC during the first quarter of 2023. The company’s last transaction was in Q2, 2022, when it sold 75% of its BTC holdings to cope with rising production costs. No Changes in Q1 The EV manufacturer, led by Elon Musk, announced it had kept...Read More
Tesla, the electric car company led by Elon Musk, did not sell the remaining of its Bitcoin stash, as it was supposed to do during the 4th quarter of 2022, according to a filing published by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Tesla’s BTC holdings should be priced at around $245 million, which would be...Read More
The Founder and CEO of Ark Invest – Cathie Wood – purchased 297,000 shares of Coinbase for approximately $11.9 million. She also bought 75,000 shares of Tesla Inc. Despite the unstable condition of the crypto sector and the increasing negativity towards centralized exchanges, Wood spent almost $12 million to acquire 297,000 COIN shares. The shares...Read More
Elon Musk’s electric car company Tesla has not sold its remaining Bitcoin stash despite bearish conditions in the crypto market. According to the firm’s Q3 report released Wednesday, Tesla held $218 million worth of bitcoin as of September 30. Tesla Holds 9,720 BTC Recall that Tesla was one of the largest corporate holders of Bitcoin,...Read More
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reportedly disposed of nearly $7 billion worth of the company’s stock in recent days as his chaotic Twitter buyout bid still hangs in limbo. Musk, who happens to be Tesla’s largest shareholder, currently has only a 15% stake in the company. According to WSJ, disclosures show that the exec sold...Read More
Elon Musk’s car manufacturer Tesla recorded a $170 million impairment charge for Bitcoin on its balance sheet during the first half of 2022. It also netted $64 million in gains from certain sales of the asset. The information comes attached to a 10-Q SEC filing from Monday. Tesla explained that it may make “no upward...Read More
A joint study conducted by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Bitget, and Foresight Ventures revealed that digital asset adoption is still in its early days. If the trend continues, the total number of cryptocurrency users should tap one billion by 2030, the entities asserted. Adoption is Gaining Traction According to the research, crypto adoption is still...Read More
The electric vehicle giant Tesla sold $936 million of its bitcoin holdings in Q2 this year. However, the move was prompted not because the company does not believe in the asset anymore, but because of the record production costs in China due to the last COVID-19 lockdown, CEO Elon Musk explained. Earlier this week, the...Read More
According to Tesla’s Q2 2022 earnings report released on Tuesday, the car manufacturer has sold almost all of its Bitcoin into fiat currency. The selloff netted the company an additional $936 million in cash for its balance sheet. As reads the report, Tesla “converted approximately 75% of [its] Bitcoin purchases into fiat currency,” as of...Read More
Is Elon Musk’s promotion of Dogecoin coming back to bite him? The billionaire and his companies are now being sued for $258 billion for engaging in a so-called “crypto pyramid scheme” by way of the meme coin. Sued for Memes? As reported by the New York Post, the federal lawsuit was filed in Lower Manhattan...Read More
Elon Musk’s interest in Dogecoin (DOGE) needs no introduction. The self-proclaimed ‘DogeFather’ has hinted at yet another collaboration, this time with his satellite internet venture, Starlink. Will Starlink Accept Dogecoin For Merch The business magnate responded with a wink emoji when a Twitter user proposed an idea of SpaceX merch store and Starlink accepting the...Read More
The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the Firefox web browser, decided to pause cryptocurrency donations after facing severe backlash from the netizens on Twitter. Several users even went on to threaten to ax their monthly donations to the Mozilla Foundation. The harshest criticisms, however, came from one of its co-founders. Mozilla “Listening and Taking...Read More
Just a few days after the completion of the Twitter poll, in which Elon Musk asked his followers whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock, the billionaire has sold in total nearly five million shares, recent SEC filings showed. CryptoPotato reported over the weekend Elon Musk’s rather unorthodox approach about whether he should...Read More
According to its third quarterly report filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Tesla could restart accepting cryptocurrency payments. It stated that during the nine months that ended Sept. 30, the company purchased an aggregate of $1.5 billion in BTC. Up until the end of March, it accepted Bitcoin as a payment for sales...Read More
Microstrategy just bagged $177M more BTC between July 1st and August 23rd. That brings Michael Saylor’s company’s total hodlings to $5.3 billion USD worth of bitcoin. Other big corporate buyers include Tesla, Square, and Galaxy Digital Holdings. The business intelligence company can’t get enough bitcoin. And it’s not the only extremely relevant and proactive company...Read More
Tesla, Elon Musk’s electric car manufacturer, released its quarterly earnings results, reporting more than $1 billion in profits for the first time since its launch. It’s not all fun and games, though. To the delight of Elon’s crypto Twitter fans-turned-haters, Tesla’s investment in Bitcoin made it $23 million in losses after the markets crashed during...Read More
It’s safe to say that this was a rather intense week in the cryptocurrency market, despite Bitcoin being only about 2% up throughout the period. Things started off rather calmly, and the market was pretty flat until Monday. Bears took control and brought the price down to slightly above $30K before landing the final blow...Read More
Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey finally had their face-to-face talk about Bitcoin at “The B Word” event today. Joined by Cathie Wood and moderated by Steve Lee, their long-awaited talk was largely bullish all around – including on Bitcoins energy use, which Elon says he is now more optimistic about. The three began by citing...Read More
Charles Hoskinson – the founder of Cardano – stated that the project’s native cryptocurrency ADA is one of the greenest and most eco-friendly digital assets. He further opined that Tesla (TSLA) should choose it if it really cares about environmental sustainability. Tesla Should Go for Cardano (ADA) In a recent interview with Lex Fridman, Charles...Read More
After Tesla stopped accepting Bitcoin as a payment method for its electric cars back in May, Elon Musk has stated that his company would resume receiving Bitcoin transactions, with one condition dependent on the energy consumption. Exactly one month following Tesla’s announcement of halting bitcoin payments, Elon Musk has said on Sunday that the electric...Read More
The story between Dogecoin and Tesla has a new, somewhat unexpected development coming from Europe. A German taxi company that has only Tesla cars has enabled its customers to use DOGE to pay for their rides. CryptoPotato reached out to the firm, called Tesla Taxi Aschaffenburg, to check out why it went that doggy road,...Read More
In the early hours of Friday morning the Bitcoin provocateur was back stirring the digital pot with another tweet, this time depicting a broken heart. The cryptic tweet hinted at a potential split with Bitcoin which is currently down 42% from its all-time high of $65K in mid-May. #Bitcoin 💔 pic.twitter.com/lNnEfMdtJf — Elon Musk (@elonmusk)...Read More
