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Elon Musk asks about converting “large transactions” of Tesla to bitcoin

 Elon Musk asked about the possibility of converting “large transactions” of Tesla’s balance sheet into bitcoin, according to a Twitter exchange between him and an advocate for the digital currency

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(Reuters) – Elon Musk on Sunday asked about the possibility of converting “large transactions” of Tesla Inc’s balance sheet into bitcoin, according to a Twitter exchange between Musk and a well-known advocate for the digital currency. Michael Saylor, chief executive officer of MicroStrategy Inc, in a tweet to Musk, suggested that the billionaire Tesla founder and head, make the move.”If you want to do your shareholders a $100 billion favor, convert the $TSLA balance sheet from USD to #BTC,” Saylor wrote in his tweet. “Other firms on the S&P 500 would follow your lead & in time it would grow to become a $1 trillion favor.” “Are such large transactions even possible?” Musk replied to Saylor. “Yes. I have purchased over $1.3 billion in #BTC in past months & would be happy to share my playbook with you offline….,” Saylor tweeted. Tesla and Musk could not be reached for comment.

“Every CEO faces the challenge of how to preserve & enhance shareholder value in the face of this year’s unprecedented monetary expansion,” Saylor said in a message to Reuters. Bitcoin is the best solution to the store of value problem faced by every individual, investor, & corporation on earth,” Saylor said. Shares of Tesla rose to a record high on Friday in a frantic day of trading as investors geared up for the electric carmaker’s much anticipated entrance into the benchmark S&P 500 index on Monday.


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