Tesla accepts Bitcoin as payment! “You can now buy a Tesla with bitcoin,” Elon Musk tweeted. “Bitcoin paid to Tesla will be held as bitcoin, not converted to fiat currency,” the CEO of the electric vehicle manufacturer added. “The ability to pay with bitcoin will be available outside the US later this year,” he also said. In early February, Tesla caused a stir by announcing that it had invested $1.5 billion in Bitcoin.

A few weeks after formalizing a major investment in bitcoin, Tesla has added the payment method to its online configurator. The billionaire finally indicates that the company only uses internal and open source software for processing bitcoin payments.