{"id":42427,"date":"2021-05-13T14:57:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T11:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=42427"},"modified":"2025-08-30T23:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:10:36","slug":"skybridge-capital-chief-bets-0-005-btc-that-tesla-will-enter-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/skybridge-capital-chief-bets-0-005-btc-that-tesla-will-enter-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"SkyBridge Capital chief bets 0.005 BTC that Tesla will enter mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci predicted that within the next year one of Elon Musk&#8217;s companies would enter the market for environmentally friendly cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p dir=\\\"ltr\\\" lang=\\\"en\\\">Elon is not a half measures guy. I predict he will become a competitor\/disruptor in the Bitcoin mining industry. I wager 500k sats that, within a year, Tesla\/SolarCity will announce its entry into \u201csuper clean\u201d bitcoin mining.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Scaramucci\/status\/1392768178313482241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">May 13, 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>\u201cElon is not a man of half measures. I predict that he will overturn the Bitcoin mining industry,\u201d wrote Scaramucci.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the businessman, Tesla or the SolarCity energy company will announce this within a year.<\/p>\n<p>Scaramucci is willing to bet 500,000 satoshis (0.005 BTC or about $248 at the time of writing) on whether his forecast will come true.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Elon Musk said that Tesla <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/tesla-halts-bitcoin-car-sales-and-roils-the-market\">stops selling electric vehicles for bitcoin<\/a> due to concerns about the environmental sustainability of cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n<p>The market reacted to the announcement with a drop. According to CoinGecko data, the top cryptocurrency over the past 24 hours has fallen by almost 12% in value.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci predicted that within the next year one of Elon Musk&#8217;s companies would enter the market for environmentally friendly cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"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":[1254,1137,1217],"class_list":["post-42427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-anthony-scaramucci","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-elon-musk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42427","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=42427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42428,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42427\/revisions\/42428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}