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A Tesla for a bitcoin: Musk drives up cryptocurrency price with US$1.5b purchase
Bitcoin took another large stride toward mainstream acceptance on Monday after billionaire Elon Musk's electric vehicle company Tesla Inc revealed it had bought US$1.5 billion of the cryptocurrency and would soon accept it as a form of payment for cars, sending the cryptocurrency shooting higher.
The announcements, buried deep in Tesla's 2020 annual report, drove a roughly 20% surge in the world's most widely held cryptocurrency to over US$47,000. At current prices, 0.8 bitcoins would be enough to buy an entry-level Tesla Model 3.
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