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You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin, Elon Musk says

You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin, Elon Musk says

The inevitable has happened: You can now purchase a Tesla vehicle with Bitcoin. 

This is according to Tesla CEO, pardon, Technoking Elon Musk, who tweeted it on Wednesday. 

You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 24, 2021

Tesla announced this would be happening in February, when the company said it purchased $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin. In an SEC filing, Tesla said it might start accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment "in the near future."

Musk also shared a few details on how this works in the background. He says Tesla operates its own Bitcoin nodes and uses "internal & open source software" for the bitcoin payment system.  Read more...

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