{"id":3184,"date":"2021-01-13T07:29:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T07:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/29\/elon-musk-is-the-richest-person-in-the-world%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8aand-wants-to-be-paid-in-bitcoin\/"},"modified":"2021-01-13T07:29:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T07:29:42","slug":"elon-musk-is-the-richest-person-in-the-world%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8aand-wants-to-be-paid-in-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/29\/elon-musk-is-the-richest-person-in-the-world%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8aand-wants-to-be-paid-in-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is the richest person in the world\u200a\u2014\u200aand wants to be paid in Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Tesla founder Elon Musk spoke again about the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. He explained via Twitter that he would in no way be opposed to payment in Bitcoin.On January 8, 2021, writer Ben Mezrich published a tweet stating that he would not refuse to be paid with Bitcoin. About a day later, Elon Musk replied to this tweet with the words \u201cneither do I.\u201dFor many entrepreneurs, 2020 was marked by financial losses. But not for Elon Musk. He recently overtook Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in Bloomberg\u2019s billionaires index and is now considered the richest person in the world. His net worth is estimated at $ 209 billion as of Jan. 12.A few days ago, the Bitcoin price reached a new all-time high and cracked the 40,000 US dollar mark. As early as December 2020, rumors were circulating that Musk\u2019s company Tesla wanted to add Bitcoin to its balance sheet. The automaker\u2019s stock is currently soaring, recently breaking the $ 800 mark. Last year, Tesla delivered a total of over half a million cars. Musk called this a milestone in early January:I am so proud of the Tesla team that they reached this important milestone! When Tesla started, I thought we had (optimistically) a 10 percent chance of surviving at all.TwitterMusk made public inquiries with MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor regarding converting Tesla\u2019s corporate assets into Bitcoin. Saylor\u2019s answer to Musk\u2019s question as follows:If you want to do your shareholders a $ 100 billion favor, convert Tesla\u2019s balance sheet from dollars to bitcoin.Musk then asked whether transactions of this magnitude were even feasible. Saylor responded to this question, recalling that he himself has invested over $ 1.3 billion in Bitcoin in the past few months. You could almost think that the two company founders already suspected that their public BTC discussion would\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Tesla founder Elon Musk spoke again about the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. He explained via Twitter that he would in no way be opposed to payment<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}