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Tesla has sold 75% of its bitcoins

Tesla, the company that makes electric cars from entrepreneur Elon Musk, on Wednesday, announce From the sale of 75 percent of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency in which I have invested about one and a half billion dollars in the last year alone. Musk stimulated the sale with concerns about the shutdown in China, which would have slowed car production at the plant in Shanghai It was necessary to accumulate liquidity to deal with the economic damage.

However, his decision is also believed to be due to collapse From the value of bitcoin in recent months: From the sale of bitcoins, Tesla earned $ 936 million (about 915 million euros, with which Tesla bought traditional currencies), but BBC Writes Its value at the end of 2021 will be around $2 billion.

This is not the first time that Musk has radically changed his mind about Bitcoin. In March 2021, after a huge investment of $1.5 billion in the purchase of bitcoin, Musk had announce It would be possible to buy Tesla cars using this currency. After several months I’ve thought about itStimulating the decision with environmental concerns related to the production of bitcoins (which means a significant use of energy). After its announcement, Bitcoin lost 17 percent of its value. Shortly thereafter, Musk also said that Tesla would never sell the bitcoins he had bought, which he did on Wednesday.

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