{"id":457416,"date":"2021-02-23T19:48:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T19:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktsl888.com\/?p=457416"},"modified":"2024-06-11T14:13:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T14:13:33","slug":"elon-musk-schiff-tesla-bitcoin-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ktsl888.com\/news\/elon-musk-schiff-tesla-bitcoin-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Trolls Peter Schiff After the Gold Bug Bashes Tesla’s Bitcoin Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tesla’s $1.5 billion purchase<\/a> of Bitcoin has been all over the news recently. The electric car manufacturer made headlines when an SEC document revealed that the firm diversified nearly 10% of its cash reserves, worth around $20 billion, into BTC earlier this month.<\/p>\n While most have favored this purchase, gold bug Peter Schiff has been an outspoken critic of the move.<\/p>\n Musk has approximately 10,000% more followers than Schiff has, though the critic’s comments on Tesla have not gone unnoticed by Musk. The Tesla CEO recently trolled Schiff by responding to a critical tweet about BTC and Tesla with an emoji\u2014an eggplant emoji.<\/p>\n Schiff<\/a> has been a relentless bear on Bitcoin over the past five years, regularly tweeting negative sentiment about the leading cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n Despite the cryptocurrency gaining validation from Wall Street and Tesla most recently, Schiff remains an ardent critic. On Feb. 22nd, Schiff commented on Tesla’s Bitcoin purchase:<\/p>\n Two weeks after @elonmusk announced that he spent $1.5 billion of shareholder money buying Bitcoin, #Tesla stock entered a bear market, plunging 20% from its all-time high set on Jan. 25th, and 16% since disclosing the #BTC buy. Not an example other CEOs will likely follow!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The insinuation being that since Tesla did not make a large amount of money on its Bitcoin investment in a short period, it was a poor decision.<\/p>\n Musk saw the tweet and respond with an eggplant emoji. Schiff took that personally, arguing that Musk was “calling [him] a dick.”<\/p>\n \ud83c\udf46<\/p>\n — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nRelated Reading: Wall Street Veteran Kickstarts Own Bitcoin Fund With $25m Investment<\/a><\/h6>\n
Elon Musk Fires Back Against Bitcoin Bear Schiff<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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