Bitcoin makes the leap onto the big stage of the global economy: With Tesla, another domino is falling for the cryptocurrency. Why Bitcoin can hardly be stopped now.“Nothing is as strong as an idea whose time has come,” once wrote the French writer and politician Victor Hugo. Satoshi published the Bitcoin Whitepaper on October 31, 2008. 3 months later the time had come: The first Bitcoin block saw the light of day. And with him his Creator sent the following message into the world:Chancellor on brink of second bailout of banks.What was meant was an article headline from the Times from January 3rd, 2009. The article is, you guessed it, about the rescue of a British bank in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008. Satoshi’s message was clear: It can’t go on like this.With Bitcoin, its founder set out to create an open and decentralized alternative to the “keep it up” from over-indebtedness, quantitative easing, and boom-and-bust cycles.We fast forward ten years and can say: Satoshi’s project is well on the way to success. The Bitcoin network transfers billions of dollars in value every day. At $ 860 billion (USD), its market cap is now more than Facebook and Tesla’s.The latter, in particular, proves how powerful Bitcoin has become: The inclusion of Bitcoin worth 1.5 billion USD on Tesla’s balance sheet was nothing less than an accolade and the ultimate legitimation of digital gold. With Bitcoin, Tesla is now entering into a symbiosis that should also increase the carmaker’s value in the long term.The bullish price movement is undoubtedly strongly driven by MicroStrategy. It is clear that Michael Saylor plays a major role in establishing a corporate Bitcoin standard. The CEO of the business intelligence company shares his “corporate playbook” on his website, a kind of heuristic of…