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Elon Musk and Donald Trump have become more and more – but they have not yet met on crypto, according to the CEO of Tesla.
Billionaire tech entrepreneur and electronic car freak he said. On Thursday, he and the former president never discussed crypto policy, on the contrary, a Bloomberg Report.
“I'm pretty sure I've never discussed crypto with Trump, although I generally support things that shift power from the government to the people, which crypto can do,” Musk responded to the post.
even if Years of public debateThe same report says that Trump and Musk are getting close. Although the GOP candidate for November's US election has denounced bitcoin, he is now pro-crypto.
Bloomberg cited a “person familiar with the matter” in its report “Musk Advises Trump on Crypto.”
Musk has become an icon in the crypto sphere. In 2020 he He started pumping Dogecoin, a joke cryptocurrency, on Twitter. His tweets helped the digital fortune grow into a cult following and its market cap soared — now at $26.3 billion, it's the ninth largest virtual coin in existence.
Musk's company Tesla Save Bitcoin In the balance of 2021. He then sold some of his assets and stopped accepting crypto payments, citing environmental concerns. Tesla still holds 9,720 Bitcoins, which is worth $673 million today.
Trump has said years ago that he was not a fan of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Now his campaign Donations are accepted In many coins and tokens it has become friendly to the place – it is described by some as a turning point Both in crypto policy and American politics.
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
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