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Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, said on Wednesday that the company now accepts Bitcoin as payment for cars in the United States. From a report: Tesla will hold the digital currency, rather than convert payments to dollars, and handle the crypto transactions internally, Mr. Musk said. "Bitcoin paid to Tesla will be retained as Bitcoin, not converted to fiat currency," Mr. Musk explained in a tweet. That means when someone buys a Tesla with Bitcoin, the price of the car could well rise -- or fall -- over time. In other words, Tesla is turning one-time payments into assets with shifting value, or, essentially, investments. Buyers outside the United States will have the option to use Bitcoin "later this year," Mr. Musk said. Mr. Musk said last month that the company bought $1.5 billion in Bitcoin for its treasury. The announcement on Wednesday confirms speculation in the crypto community that Tesla would not simply contract out payments to a third-party processor and treat Bitcoin like dollars. Musk tweeted, "Tesla is using only internal & open source software & operates Bitcoin nodes directly."
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