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Billionaire Elon Musk ‘turned around’, Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market fell flat

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After Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced to stop accepting Bitcoin as a payment method, Bitcoin this morning fell by nearly $ 10,000 / BTC compared to yesterday, the virtual currency market plunged.

Bitcoin plunged sharply on the morning of May 13 At 7 a.m. this morning, Bitcoin’s price on Coindesk was just over $ 47,000 / BTC, down $ 10,000 / BTC compared to last night. Meanwhile, on Coinmarketcap, Bitcoin also fell at a similar rate, to close to $ 49,000 / BTC. Thus, after peaking at $ 64,000 in mid-April 2021, Bitcoin never stopped going down and repeatedly broke the $ 50,000 / BTC mark. Along with Bitcoin, a series of other virtual currencies also turned red, the market capitalization decreased by more than 10%. Ethereum decreased by nearly 5%, BNB decreased 8.2%, XRP decreased 10%, BCH decreased 16%, LTC decreased nearly 15% … Some other virtual currencies even decreased 15-40%. Notably, Shiba Inu, a virtual currency “junk” is crazy about investors because the hot rise recently fell by nearly 35% in just half a day. The virtual money market fell vertically because yesterday, billionaire Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla announced “suspending the purchase of cars with Bitcoin” due to environmental concerns. Earlier in March, Elon Musk revealed that US customers can use bitcoin to pay for Tesla cars. “Tesla has suspended the purchase of cars with Bitcoin. We are concerned about the rapid increase in the use of fossil fuels to mine and trade Bitcoin, especially coal, the most polluting fuel. Cryptocurrency is a good idea on many levels and we believe it has a promising future. However, that cannot come at an environmental cost, “the billionaire explained. This billionaire unlike anyone has repeatedly made headlines in the virtual currency market by sudden decisions. However, he also asserted that Tesla did not sell any Bitcoin and intends to use it for trading as Bitcoin mining uses more sustainable energy. Yesterday, this tricky billionaire also gave a consultation on his personal Twitter page about whether Tesla should accept payments in dogecoin. The survey received millions of responses, of which the majority approved. The event comes just days after the billionaire revealed that SpaceX has accepted Dogecoin to pay for his lunar trips. Dogecoin virtual currency was “born” as a joke in 2013 by computer engineer Billy Markus and Adobe marketing expert Jackson Palmer suddenly got waves when billionaire Elon Musk invested and praised many times. on the personal page. However, the billionaire himself has repeatedly made statements to make this virtual currency “on elephants, down dogs”. Over the past 24 hours, Dogecoin has decreased in price by nearly 14%. From the beginning of the year until now, many banks, investment funds, and financial institutions announced to invest in bitcoin or accept payments in Bitcoin. However, with only a few individuals’ moves, this market still plunged without braking, this shows the great risk of this market. Even billionaire Elon Musk, while initiating and pioneering large corporations to invest in virtual money, said that people should not invest life savings in digital money because it is “not wise. good “. According to billionaire Musk, there is a possibility that digital money will become the main currency on earth, but no one knows what kind of currency it will be. Therefore, the investment in that time should be considered.

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