Elon Musk himself has repeatedly boosted Bitcoin on Twitter and other platforms.
Unless you re the world s richest person, you shouldn t be buying Bitcoin. That s the message from Bill Gates - the third richest.
With a rally of more than 400% over the past year, Bitcoin has become increasingly mainstream, and everybody including prominent investors and policy makers have been talking about it. The world s on-again, off-again richest person, Elon Musk, recently invested $1.5 billion in the cryptocurrency through his company, Tesla Inc., and said Bitcoin would soon be accepted for payments.
For Gates, it s not something Main Street should buy into - plus it s bad for the environment as mining the coins requires a lot of energy.
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