Elon Musk, The World’s Richest Man, Wants To Be Paid In Bitcoin

Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla

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and SpaceX and who has just become the world’s richest man, has said he would never turn down being paid in the soaring cryptocurrency bitcoin.

Responding to a tweet by Ben Mezrich, the author behind the movie The Social Network and writer of Bitcoin Billionaires, that read “I’m never turning down getting paid in bitcoin again,” Musk replied: “Me neither.”

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