Tesla, led by Elon Musk, confirmed that it bought about $ 1.5 billion in bitcoin in January and expects to start accepting it as payment in the future.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced late Tuesday that it is now possible to buy Tesla vehicles in the US with bitcoin.
Last month, the carmaker revealed that it had bought $ 1.5 billion worth of bitcoin and would soon begin accepting the world’s most popular cryptocurrency as a form of payment.
“Now you can buy a Tesla with Bitcoin,” he wrote on Twitter.
People outside the United States will be able to buy a Tesla with bitcoin “later this year,” Musk said, without specifying which countries.
To accept the payment, Musk said Tesla uses “internal” and “open source” software.
He added that Tesla “operates bitcoin nodes directly.” Nodes are computers in the Bitcoin network that work to check transactions and avoid spending cryptocurrency twice.