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Elon Musk Confirms Tesla Now Accepts Payment in Bitcoin

wazup March 24, 2021 Comments Closed 37 views

Image sourced from CNBC Telsa CEO, Elon Musk has confirmed that the electric car company will now accept Bitcoin as a form of payment – news that has caused the price of Bitcoin to rise 5%. In a tweet, Musk says “You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin” and then goes on to reveal that Tesla is only using internal and open-source software and operates Bitcoin nodes directly. And that Bitcoin paid to Tesla will be retained as Bitcoin, not converted to fiat currency. You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 24, 2021 According to Simon Peters, crypto analyst at eToro, the decision for Tesla to accept Bitcoin as a form of payment “will likely build more momentum for the cryptoasset“. /* custom css */ .tdi_3_65b.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_65b.td-a-rec-img...

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What to Expect from the 2020 Bitcoin Halving

wazup May 11, 2020 Comments Closed 43 views

The Bitcoin halving is a planned reduction in rewards miners receive. Halvings happen once every four years or so. And the next one will take place in the early hours of Tuesday, 12 May 2020. What exactly is a halving and why does it happen? Bitcoin is generated by miners. They have computers performing complex calculations which validate the transactions on a public digital ledger, called the blockchain. The miners compete with each other to earn newly-issued tokens known as a block reward. A halving is a 50% reduction in the value of rewards to Bitcoin miners. There is a finite number of Bitcoin that will ever be in circulation (21 million) and there is no way of producing more. Halvings are a unique protocol which controls the supply of Bitcoin. /* custom css */ .tdi_3_98b.td-a-rec-img{...