Elon Musk declared: You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin
In exciting news and in perfect timing, Bitcoin has been struggling to maintain its bullish momentum.
This morning, Elon Musk announced on Twitter that Tesla, a company specialized in the electric vehicle industry, had begun accepting Bitcoin payments.
You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 24, 2021
That is, a group of Tesla cars could be ordered in Bitcoin.
The Bitcoin Pay button appeared on the Tesla website, as is shown in the image shown below:
Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk also said that the company only uses open source internal software and runs Bitcoin nodes directly.
He said that the bitcoin paid to Tesla will be kept in its original form and will not be converted into paper currency immediately.
He added that Tesla customers will be able to pay with Bitcoin outside the United States later this year.
The bitcoin price was affected immediately after the news announced by "Elon Musk", and the price rose from 54 thousand to the level of 56 thousand dollars at the time of writing this article.