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At the DNB Invest conference earlier in March, Spetalen gave the cryptocurrency bitcoin the slippery slope.
– The only thing I have made an analysis of is that bitcoin today consumes as much energy as all of Norway’s energy consumption. It is extremely environmentally hostile. If one really meant anything about bitcoin, the authorities and the EU should ban this immediately. Then you cut CO2 emissions considerably, he says, and describes it as a customs currency, in Spetalen.
– It’s just nonsense. We are doing well with the payment systems that are in place today, Spetalen continued.
Now, however, the pipe has a different sound in an interview with Finansavisen after Spetalen entered the ownership side of the Norwegian crypto exchange Miraiex.
– When the facts change, I change. I met the Miraiex founders Thuc and Øyvind the day after the podcast was recorded in early March and realized that I had been wrong. And when I also read that Kjell Inge Røkke had gone into bitcoin, it was quite obvious. Can’t bear to see that Røkke makes money and not me, says Spetalen to Finansavisen.
At the beginning of March, the industrial magnate Kjell Inge Røkke launched the crypto company Seetee who had bought bitcoin for 500 million kroner.
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Spetalen tells FA that he has also bought bitcoin, but for less than Røkke.
On Friday night, bitcoin is trading at about $ 54,000, slightly lower than the highest levels of over $ 60,000 from mid-March.