Hackers collective Anonymous is not kind to Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a recently published video. The hackers call him a “narcissist looking for attention”. The reason for this is the somewhat bizarre tweets from Musk that caused the value of bitcoin to fall sharply.
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The message from the hackers is that Musk has too much power over the cryptocurrency market. “In recent years you’ve had one of the best reputations from the people in the billionaire class,” says the person in the picture, classically with a Guy Fawkes mask on the head. “But recently you showed your true face. Now people are starting to see that you are nothing more than another narcissistic rich guy desperate for attention.”
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The hackers denounced, among other things, the way Musk treats his staff and the fact that he is “willing to commit coups d’etat to help dictators take power in places where your toxic products are mined”. “You even call yourself Emperor of Mars, a place where you will send people to die.”
His fans condone those issues, Anonymous said, “because they’re focused on the potential benefits of your projects to the world.” The hackers also criticize the way Tesla makes money, according to them mainly through government subsidies. Finally, they talk about bitcoin and the great power that Musk has over that market. “The games you have played with the crypto markets has destroyed people’s lives. Millions invested really counted on it to improve their lives. But you will never understand because you were born in stolen wealth.”
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The main crypto coin has had a rough few weeks. Last week the price seemed to stabilize, but Friday around 8.30 am (Belgian time) a bitcoin was worth 36,760 dollars after a price drop of about 5 percent in the past 24 hours. The new stand is nearly $30,000 lower than the record level of nearly $65,000 reached in mid-April.
This decrease is partly attributed to the fuss about the high energy consumption in the so-called “mining” of digital currencies such as bitcoins. Fossil fuels would often be used for this as well. Musk, among others, called that energy consumption insane.
Despite bitcoin’s decline in May, the digital currency is still worth nearly four times what it was a year ago. Ether, the second largest crypto currency in total value, has become more than ten times as much in a year.
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