Tesla founder Elon Musk earned more Bitcoin in days than he sold cars in a year
From an easy and quick calculation, it became clear that the man who became the richest in the world, the Canadian-American Elon Musk, founder of the Tesla company producing electric cars, gained from buying "petcoins" on January 29, that is, 23 days ago, more than he made from selling cars. In 2020 in its entirety.
On the next day of that deal, a man born 49 years ago in South Africa issued a statement that surprised the world, when he announced that the company that he founded 17 years ago had invested a little more than one billion and 500 million dollars, and bought a number of cryptocurrency with it, it did not mention its size, and because the price One Bitcoin was 38,300 on Friday, January 29th, according to Al Arabiya.net's review of the prices of this cryptocurrency as it was in the last week of last month. What it bought was approximately 39,000 Bitcoin.
And because the currency price rose again today, Friday, to 57,000 thousand, so the value of what Tesla bought became 2 billion and 280 million dollars, thus achieving, after 3 weeks, a net profit without much fatigue, amounting to 780 million dollars from one "Bitcoin" deal, which is increasing On its profit of 721 million from selling cars last year, according to what was reported by US media.
A currency that came from the realm of nothingness
Bitcoin, described as the most widely circulated digital currency in the world, has a symbolic presence on the computer only, without a physical basis whatsoever, according to what appears from its biography, which includes that a person named Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym, was impersonating it, invented it and brought it to the "digital" in 2009 from the world Nothing, of little value, then its price began to escalate until the value of the asset became by default more than a trillion dollars.
As for Elon Musk, who in 2002 founded another company, called SpaceX, the American private company for manufacturing aviation and space transportation, his biography summarized by "Al Arabiya.net" is a bit strange, as we find that his paternal grandmother of Pennsylvania Dutch origin was British, while his grandmother is on the maternal side. An American, he was born in South Africa and holds her nationality, and where he also gave birth to a sister named Tosca two years younger than him, and a brother named Kimbal was born four years younger than him. And because Musk lived in Canada, he obtained her citizenship, as well as an American for residing in the United States.
