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Wonder when Elon will complete this pump & dump just like he did with bitcoin. He is either a fraudster or a moron, when he decided to embrace bitcoin and a month later decided it wasn't good for the environment... Anyone with access to the internet and a few minutes time can figure out the power consumption required to back a network which supports a miniscule amount of transactions. And that power usage will only grow as acceptance and price continues to rise.


I’d like to be a fly on the wall of the SEC when the subject of Elon comes up. At this point I’m pretty sure he’s deliberately trolling them.


I have the same feeling. Elon despises the SEC and he might have found a way to mess with them by playing with a mostly unregulated market.

Edit: Also, his name was used a lot by crypto scammers on Twitter and nothing was ever done about those. That might also have pissed him off even more.


Except 'messing with the SEC' is actually messing with innocent people who's protection is outside the remit of the SEC.


I'm holding out hope that he's deliberately trying to destroy the cryptocurrency market.


Isn't Tesla still holding most of the bitcoin it bought?


This has literally nothing to do with Elon. Did you even read the article? Somebody paid SpaceX to transport something from A to B, that all.


What else would you expect from a person, who was sued by SEC for fraud?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#SEC_lawsuit

No regrets, when return is greater than penalty

"Musk has stated in interviews he does not regret the tweet that triggered the SEC investigation"


Why would he? It's made him and "the shareholders" a lot of money. The SEC is toothless if you're a billionaire.


I’m not sure Musk has seen the last penalty for that tweet. The SEC has been corresponding with Tesla about Musk’s noncompliance with the court-ordered legal review of his tweets.


This has nothing to do with SpaceX or Elon. The Ethereum node was part of cargo contracted with NASA.


Elon's agenda:

1. Bitcoin bad

2. Bitcoin not green enough

3. Miners buy SolarRoof and Tesla Batteries, else Tesla will use it's billions to manipulate markets




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