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Tesla bòt Bitcoin Men, kenbe yon fwa-blag Crypto Dogecoin kòm yon mwayen pou peman
Machin elektrik Tesla te retire kòd sous ki te pèmèt peman BTC yo. Sepandan, konpayi an Elon Musk ki posede ap kenbe OG meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin (DOGE) kòm yon opsyon peman.
DOGE Aksepte Opsyon Peman Pou Tesla Merch
Crypto journalist Colin Wu drew attention to the rumors circulating on Crypto Twitter that claim both Bitcoin and Dogecoin are present on Tesla’s payment page source code. Upon further digging, Wu jwenn ke BTC ak DOGE te prezan nan kòd sous EV Maker a depi janvye ane sa a.
The Hong Kong-based reporter observed that Tesla did not remove the source code when it sispann the option to pay in BTC in May 2021. Tesla te kòmanse aksepte Bitcoin as a payment method for its electric cars in late March 2021 after buying $ 1.5 milya dola worth of the asset. The pilot proved short-lived following concerns about Bitcoin’s high energy usage and was soon dropped.
Wu examined Tesla’s payments page and discovered that the company had finally decided to retain Dogecoin — originally designed in 2013 as a joke and poke fun at Bitcoin — but ditched the world’s largest crypto by market capitalization.
“At present, Tesla has deleted ‘Bitcoin’ in the source code of its payment page, but still retains ‘Dogecoin,” Wu stated.
Neither Tesla nor Elon Musk has issued an official announcement concerning this move. Nevertheless, it doesn’t come as a surprise as Musk is a self-proclaimed Dogecoin fan. Besides Tesla, Musk has also previously indicated that his other multi-billion-dollar enterprise, Starlink, would also start allowing DOGE payments for subscriptions.
Tesla Still A Bitcoin Holder
Despite scrapping Bitcoin payments, Tesla is not all done with the cryptocurrency.
Kachèt BTC li yo rete entak pou katriyèm trimès dwat la, kòm ZyCrypto rapòte. Tesla still holds approximately $184 million in Bitcoin. The company has not added or sold any BTC since the second quarter of 2022, when it dumped over 30,000 bitcoins, which accounted for 75% of its total holdings, for a whopping $936 million.
BTC is down 1.4% for the week and is currently trading hands at $29,874, according to CoinGecko. But the top cryptocurrency has rocketed by more than 80% since the start of the year, as a result of several factors. Recent bullish events include the U.S. Federal Reserve hitting the pause button on the latest interest rate hike and Blackrock’s landmark aplikasyon to list a spot Bitcoin echanj-komèsyal fon (ETF) nan peyi Etazini.
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