{"id":34459,"date":"2021-01-09T22:24:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34459"},"modified":"2025-08-28T20:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:40:12","slug":"elon-musk-says-he-would-not-rule-out-accepting-bitcoin-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/elon-musk-says-he-would-not-rule-out-accepting-bitcoin-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says he would not rule out accepting bitcoin payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, is not opposed to receiving payments in bitcoin. This follows from his reply to American writer and screenwriter Ben Mezrich.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mezrich wrote that he would never again refuse to receive payment in bitcoin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Me neither<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1347958527411724291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Me too,&#8221; Musk succinctly replied.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Recently, Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-01-06\/musk-close-to-surpassing-bezos-as-world-s-richest-person?sref=AACmJ2tc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">topped<\/a> Bloomberg&#8217;s list of billionaires. Against the rapid rise in Tesla&#8217;s shares, the American entrepreneur&#8217;s net worth rose by $1.5 billion to $188.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-questions-bitcoins-use-in-large-transactions\">Asked<\/a> MicroStrategy chief Michael Saylor whether $100 billion transactions would be possible on the Bitcoin network.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in June, former Warner Bros. Entertainment president Greg Silverman announced plans to make a film about the Winklevoss twins, based on Ben Mezrich&#8217;s book Bitcoin Billionaires.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, is not opposed to receiving payments in bitcoin. This follows from his reply to American writer and screenwriter Ben Mezrich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1217],"class_list":["post-34459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-elon-musk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34461,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34459\/revisions\/34461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}