Elon Musk has announced that Tesla cars can now be purchased with bitcoin. On this news, the cryptocurrency exchange rate exceeded $55,000.

Musk announced on his Twitter that the option to pay for Tesla with bitcoin is now available in the US, and promised that customers from other countries will get this option later this year.

Musk said that Tesla uses internal open source software for sales and will directly manage bitcoin. The billionaire assured that the bitcoin paid for the car "will be stored as bitcoin and not converted into fiat currency."

Against the backdrop of the announcement of this, the bitcoin rate is growing - it has already added more than 2%, having risen in price by $1,115, to $55,300.

The fact that Tesla invested in bitcoins became known on February 8. Immediately after this news, the cryptocurrency updated its historical maximum, having risen in price by more than 10%.
Tesla has been making money on bitcoins for a long time, and sometimes the company's earnings on cryptocurrency exceed earnings on the main product - electric cars. For example, from January to the end of February 2021, Tesla earned $1.08 billion from bitcoins. At the same time, according to The Times, car sales brought Tesla $721 million in all of 2020.

Elon Musk announced the start of Tesla sales for bitcoins