Elon Musk lets Twitter survey decide whether to sell Tesla shares worth $ 20 billion-investors suggest buying Bitcoin-News
Elon Musk lets Twitter survey decide whether to sell Tesla shares worth $ 20 billion-investors suggest buying Bitcoin-News
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, asked his Twitter followers if he should sell his Tesla share. He also promised to adhere to the results of the survey. Many people urge Musk to sell his Tesla shares and invest money in cryptocurrency, especially Bitcoin.
Elon Musk asks Twitter followers to decide whether they want to sell their Tesla shares; Most said yes
Tesla boss Elon Musk carried out a survey on Saturday on Twitter, in which his 62.7 million followers are asked whether he should sell 10 % of his Tesla shares. "A lot has been done recently by the fact that not realized profits are a means of avoiding tax, so I suggest selling 10% of my Tesla shares. Do you support that?" Musk tweeted.
In a follow-up tweet, he noticed that he "moves into a bar content or a bonus from nowhere" and emphasized: "I only have shares, so I can only pay the taxes personally by selling stocks." The Tesla boss also promised:
I will stick to the results of this survey, no matter in which direction it goes.
The Musk survey has attracted a lot of attention in the media. She received more than 3.5 million votes, of which 57.9 % said "yes". The tweet was liked 111.5k times and retained 22.1k times.
on Friday, congress existed The $ 1.2 trillion infrastructure law, after the hotly discussed tax plan for unrealized capital gains, which is aimed at billionaires, has been shortened. This part of the draft law was outsourced in a separate $ 1.9 billion note, which will be voted on later.
The Tesla boss, who, according to Forbes billionaire list, is now the richest man in the world with a net assets of at least $ 318.4 billion, has published several tweets criticize the invoice in the past few weeks.
Many bitcoiners jumped into the survey thread to express their opinion towards Musk. A number of people suggested that Musk made the proceeds from the sale of his TSLA shares to btc . The CEO of Microstrategy, Michael Saylor, suggested, for example: “If the goal is diversification, an alternative strategy that should be considered to convert the TSLA balance into a Bitcoin standard and buy $ 25 billion $ =" _ Blank "Class =" lar-automated-link " href = "https://markets.bitcoin.com/crypto/Btc" Rel = "noopener"> btc .
The former Tesla employee Michael Rihani, who is now working as head of crypto products at Jack Dorsey's company Square Inc., tweeted to his old boss:
Yes, sell to get USD + USD 10 billion, buy Bitcoin. You will be from this 10 billion.
Some of Musk's supporters hope that the Tesla billionaire will put some money into the Meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin. Musk, also called Dogefather, has long been a fan "The crypto of the people". He recently announced that he has personally three cryptocurrencies : bitcoin, Ether and Dogecoin.
Not everyone was satisfied with the survey. Some were concerned that the sale of 10 % of Musk's Tesla position would push the TSLA share course on Monday morning. Others thought it was just a bad idea to have Twitter users decide what they should do with so much wealth.
US senator Ron Wyden, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which is behind the determination of the unrealized profit tax, answered on Saturday evening:
whether the richest man in the world pays taxes at all or not should not depend on the results of a Twitter survey. It is time for the income tax of the billionaires.
Musk's participation in Tesla amounts to about 170.5 million Shares as of June 30th. The sale of 10 % of its shares would amount to around $ 21 billion, based on the current share price of Tesla.
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