(Reuters) – Tesla Inc said Monday it had invested around $ 1.5 billion in bitcoin and expected to start accepting payments for its cars and other products soon, prompting a jump 7% in electronic money.
Tesla said in a filing that the decision was part of its broad investment policy as a company and aimed to diversify and increase the returns on cash.
They said they had invested a total of $ 1.5 billion in bitcoin under the changed policy and that it could “acquire and maintain digital assets from time to time or in the long term”.
Bitcoin rose after Tesla made the announcement to hit a record high. (Bit.ly/3q53p1m)
Reporting by Subrat Patnaik in Bengaluru; Edited by Bernard Orr and Patrick Graham