From Tesla CEO to Dogecoin creator, Musk doesn't love bitcoin

律动 BlockBeats 消息，5 月 17 日，比特币一度跌破 45,000 美元，24 小时跌幅超 5%。全球首富、特斯拉 CEO  埃隆 · 马斯克（Elon Musk）似乎成了这场暴跌的始作俑者。

Elon Musk recently reversed his previous support for Bitcoin, saying on Twitter that the company had stopped using bitcoin as a form of payment because it was too energy-intensive, used too much non-renewable energy and had a negative environmental impact. At the time, Bitcoin fell 15 percent and more than $2 billion was sold online. But Musk has denied that he is selling any of his bitcoin holdings.

Teaming up with Dogecoin developers to expand capacity

On May 16, Musk's stance on bitcoin was noticeably different. In a frequent tweet, he said he was working with Dogecoin developers to "ideally speed up the Dogecoin block time by a factor of 10, increase the block size by a factor of 10, and reduce the process cost by 1/100."

A user then asked him if he would consider launching a new token that would meet your technical requirements and decentralize operations from the start. Musk said that creating new tokens would be a hassle and that he would not consider creating new tokens if Dogecoin could meet all demand.

Later, under constant questions from netizens, Musk began to show that he was "not satisfied" with Bitcoin. Netizens attached a picture asking him "How to solve the problem of Dogecoin being too centralized?" There is only one address with 10 billion Dogecoins listed in the picture.

To which Musk replied, "The big account is supposed to be on the exchange, and maybe check, I'm told the big one is a Robinhood."

At this point, he has yet to make a very clear "critique" of Bitcoin. But in the early hours of May 17, responding to Twitter users, the "currency gurus" said: "Bitcoin's computing power is highly centralized. A power failure in a single region has reduced Bitcoin's computing power by 35%. I probably know more about how money works than you do.

Suggesting that Tesla may have sold its bitcoin holdings

A user named Mr. Whale posted, "Next quarter, Bitcoin investors will probably beat themselves in the face when they find out that Tesla is dumping its bitcoin holdings. Musk is getting a lot of hate, but I don't blame him."

"Indeed," Musk replied.

Bitcoin was quoted at $44,900 at the time of writing, down 6.45% in 24 hours. It was not immediately possible to confirm whether Tesla or Musk had sold any of his bitcoin holdings.

Musk's split with the cryptocurrency community?

马斯克的言论已引发一些比特币社区用户不满。 Paradigm 联合创始人 Matt Huang 发布推特称， 比特币等加密货币经常会挑战传统思维；不管马斯克最终是否拥有比特币，比特币将继续前行。

Morgan Creek founder Anthony Pompliano also commented on Musk's actions, saying: "The world's richest man spent billions of dollars over the past decade buying one of the world's best-performing assets, and now he's spending his time trying to make online jokes more technically efficient. Amazing."

甚至狗狗币联合创始人 Jackson Palmer 发推指责：「马斯克是一个自私的骗子。」

从前，加密世界一直在思考如何完成「破圈」，吸引更多传统领域的关注。将比特币推广给更多用户，加密社区爱好者们也大多数默认，新进入的资金最终应都会流入加密货币龙头资产—比特币。那如果新进资本并不钟情比特币该如何？

Musk has eschewed Bitcoin in favor of the meme token Dogecoin. In the future, there may be more investors from different backgrounds and fields pouring into the crypto market. Will they continue to choose only bitcoin? This may be a new challenge for the crypto world.

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