TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Tesla Inc. CEO’s latest joke. Elon Musk Not only did the Bitcoin price plummet, but the stocks related to the crypto asset immediately collapsed.
Bloomberg data shows that on Thursday, May 13, 2021, the price of Bitcoin fell by 15 percent to the level of US $ 46,045 or around Rp. 655.7 million (assuming an exchange rate of Rp. 14,252 per US dollar).
The plunge in the price of digital money came shortly after Musk raised concerns about the excessive use of fossil energy for transactions and mining Bitcoin.
It did not stop there, the shares of a number of companies related to Bitcoin were corrected. Asset exchange operator crypto- The largest in the US, Coinbas Global Inc., for example, plunged 4.8 percent after Musk’s statement.
As for the shares of Microstrategy Inc., which has put billions of assets in Bitcoin, fell 9.2 percent after trading. Next, the company owned by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Square Inc, also weakened.
Meanwhile, in the Asian market, shares of Monex Group Inc, fell by 12 percent. Monex, which owns the crypto asset exchange operator Coincheck Inc., is the second best performing stock in Japan throughout 2021.
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