Tesla lifts Bitcoin with $1.5b investment

By Subrat Patnaik and Anna Irrera
Updated February 9 2021 - 1:39am, first published 1:37am
Elon Musk's Tesla has invested $US1.5 billion in cryptocurrency Bitcoin.
Elon Musk's Tesla has invested $US1.5 billion in cryptocurrency Bitcoin.

Electric car maker Tesla has purchased $US1.5 billion ($A2.0 billion) in Bitcoin and announced that it would begin accepting it as payment for its products in the near future, prompting a spike in the cryptocurrency.

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