Elon Musk, chief executive officer for Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), speaks during an event at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, U.S., on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. Musk just revealed the identity of the precious cargo hitching a ride around the moon with his rocket company: Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
Elon Musk, chief executive officer for Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), speaks during an event at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, U.S., on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. Musk just revealed the identity of the precious cargo hitching a ride around the moon with his rocket company: Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

Tesla’s $1.5bn Bitcoin bet – With insights from The Wall Street Journal

'The electric-vehicle company also said it expects to start accepting bitcoin as payment for its products soon', reports The Wall Street Journal.
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Enigmatic Elon Musk can do no wrong at present – even his joke tweets send the prices of those mentioned soaring. So when Musk got deadly serious about Bitcoin yesterday, announcing a billion and a half dollar investment in the crypto currency, the resulting price rocket was almost predictable. Here's the story from our partners at The Wall Street Journal. – Alec Hogg

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