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Why Tesla holding $2 billion in Bitcoin is ‘a distraction and sideshow’: Analyst

As detailed in a broad SEC filing this week, Tesla gave investors an update on its Bitcoin holdings. Parsing through the disclosure, it boils down to this: Tesla bought around $1.5 billion in bitcoin (BTC-USD) in the early part of 2021; realized a gain of $128 million on a sale of some of its stake earlier in 2021; has now taken a $101 million impairment on the holding as bitcoin’s value has diminished; and currently Tesla’s bitcoin stake has a market value of nearly $2 billion, and a ‘carrying… Source link

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