Elon Musk, the tech billionaire and entrepreneur known for founding and leading Motors and SpaceX, revealed on Twitter Thursday Feb. 22, how much (BTC) he owns — 0.25 BTC or as of press time, or 0.000012% of his total .
Musk’s cryptocurrency holdings reveal comes after a number of posing to be various well-known figures, , cropped up on Twitter promising crypto donations to those who send them crypto.
On Feb. 22 a Twitter user concerned about the scam accounts in a tweet “why is all the spam popping up lately?”
Not sure. I let know, but it’s still going. I literally own zero cryptocurrency, apart from .25 BTC that a friend sent me many years ago.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
Musk responded that he had already reported the issue to Twitter CEO to no avail. Evidently as a way of explaining his surprise at the multiple scams, Musk noted in the same tweet that apart from the 0.25 BTC a friend had given to him “many years ago”, he “literally own[s] zero cryptocurrency.”
The bitcoin sum he reports to own is indeed an extremely small fraction of Musk’s total net worth, which stands at as of Feb. 24.
In November 2017, Musk rumors suggested by former SpaceX intern Sahil Gupta that Musk was probably , the legendary anonymous creator of bitcoin.
As Cointelegraph Feb. 21, a cloud security firm recently reported that Tesla’s non-password protected Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) software container had been hacked to mine cryptocurrency over an as yet unknown period of time.
Published at Sat, 24 Feb 2018 16:26:13 +0000
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