Tesla Announced Its Bitcoin Assets

Tesla, the US-based electric vehicle manufacturer, announced its Bitcoin assets. Tesla has about $2 billion worth of BTC.

Tesla, the company of Elon Musk, who clearly showed his power to affect prices in cryptocurrency markets, especially to Bitcoin and Dogecoin, with his tweets during 2021, announced that he has approximately 2 billion dollars worth of Bitcoin. In its annual statement to the SEC, the company also reported that it suffered an “impairment loss” of $101 million due to the price drop in Bitcoin. In the statement made, the number of Bitcoins owned by the company was not specified, but when a calculation is made based on the value of $ 1.99 billion with the Bitcoin price on December 31, it is seen that the company has approximately 47 thousand 400 Bitcoins. The company announced that it bought $ 1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin on February 8 last year, and the price of Bitcoin, which was around $ 38 thousand at that time, rose above $ 43 thousand in a very short time. Musk also announced that Tesla did not sell Bitcoin at the The B Word event held online in the summer. Musk later announced that SpaceX company also bought Bitcoin.