“Tesla is using only internal and open source software and operates Bitcoin nodes directly. Bitcoin paid to Tesla will be retained as Bitcoin, not converted to fiat currency,” added Musk.
On Tuesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that it is now possible to buy Tesla vehicles in the United States with Bitcoin.
Tesla’s market value soared to over $800 billion by January, before dropping to less than $600 billion in February. It now stands at around $635 billion.
Commodity-linked currencies including the Australian dollar , the New Zealand dollar and the Canadian dollar eased slightly against the US dollar, tracking weakness in commodity prices.
A $1.5 billion bitcoin bet last month by Tesla Inc saw Elon Musk's electric car company join business software firm MicroStrategy Inc and Twitter boss Jack Dorsey's payments company Square Inc in swapping some traditional cash reserves for the digital coin.
Amid rising customer demand to own and invest in bitcoin, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said this week that it is exploring how to serve those clients while remaining on the right side of regulation.
Yet there’s unlikely to be a concerted crypto charge any time soon, say many finance executives and accountants loath to risk balance sheets and reputations on a highly volatile and unpredictable asset that confounds convention.
The deal will provide the merged entity with gross cash proceeds of $595 million, which includes $425 million from investors including Fidelity Management & Research Company and Morgan Stanley's Counterpoint Global.
Good Work, a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, raised $150 million through an initial public offering last year.
The world's biggest cryptocurrency slipped as much as 6% to $44,451 before recovering most of its losses.
The sell-off echoed that in equity markets, where European stocks tumbled as much as 1.5%, with concerns over lofty valuations also hammering demand. Asian stocks fell by the most in nine months.