Elon Musk Says Bitcoin Not Good Substitute for Transactional Currency

Elon Musk Says Bitcoin Not Good Substitute for Transactional Currency
Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, participates in a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on May 27, 2020. Saul Martinez/Getty Images
Katabella Roberts
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Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk has said he believes that Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency due to its low transaction volume and high transaction costs.

Speaking to Time magazine after being named Time’s 2021 Person of the Year on Monday, billionaire Musk instead touted Dogecoin, created by software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, as a safer bet for transactions.
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