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Bitcoiners say Elon Musk can buy Bitcoin to win Trump feud

The Bitcoin group is looking on Tesla CEO Elon Musk to stack Bitcoin as a option to acquire the higher hand in his ongoing public feud with US President Donald Trump.

“One of the simplest ways for Elon to get again at Trump is by full porting Bitcoin,” crypto dealer and analyst Will Clemente stated in a June 6 X publish. Echoing the same sentiment, JAN3 founder and CEO Samson Mow stated in an X publish on the identical day, “@elonmusk, it’s time to go all in on Bitcoin.”

Mow urges Tesla to begin Bitcoin treasury technique

Mow urged Musk to simply accept Bitcoin (BTC) funds for Tesla and undertake a Bitcoin treasury technique. In 2021, Tesla stopped accepting Bitcoin as a method of fee as a result of environmental issues. Nevertheless, it nonetheless holds digital property. On April 23, Cointelegraph reported that Tesla’s digital asset holdings dropped 11.61% in worth from $1.076 billion to $951 million in Q1.

Mow additionally proposed that Musk’s SpaceX provide launch reductions to clients who pay in Bitcoin.

“Pressure a tough cash commonplace on the cash printers,” Mow stated. It comes after Mow lately instructed Cointelegraph Journal that it’s been three months since Trump signed the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve govt order, however he’s but to purchase any extra Bitcoin. He stated the US “has to begin” buying Bitcoin this yr to keep away from being front-run by different nations.

In one other remark to Musk, Mow added:

“At the least do it earlier than they freeze your fiat property.”

Some Bitcoiners speculated that if Musk backed Bitcoin, he wouldn’t maintain again. Lomob co-founder and CEO Boyd Cohen stated, “If Musk had been to go BTC maxi, all bets are off in so some ways. He doesn’t do something small.”

“He’d construct or purchase his option to the most important BTC treasury, he’d settle for BTC in all his companies, he’d be becoming a member of Bitcoin Presidents on the world stage selling it as the one path to freedom,” Cohen stated.

The feud began after Musk left workplace as an adviser to Trump after which referred to as his tax invoice a “disgusting abomination” on June 3. It escalated on June 5 after each traded public insults on social media. Musk stated Trump’s plan for sweeping international tariffs “will trigger a recession within the second half of this yr.” 

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In the meantime, Trump stated in a publish on his Fact Social platform that terminating Musk’s authorities subsidies and contracts would save “billions and billions of {dollars}” for the US authorities. 

Musk has often talked about cryptocurrency through the years. Most lately, on June 2, he stated his social media platform X is rolling out a brand new messaging characteristic, XChats, which may have “Bitcoin-style encryption.”

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