Can you buy a car using bitcoin? Some car dealers were years ahead of Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s move towards cryptocurrency has created a buzz as many car dealers claim that they were way ahead than the Tesla owner, while some said that it looks like a PR stunt. 

Musk had bought Dogecoin – a cryptocurrency – for his newborn, further extending his support to digital currencies. “Bought some dogecoin for lil X, so he can be a toddler hodler,” said the Tesla and SpaceX CEO on Twitter.

The car dealers said accepting cryptocurrency is a good marketing and branding tool, but it is still a niche business and it also becomes a risk for them as they are not tech-savvy.

A Georgia car dealer Christopher Basha said he was way ahead of Musk as he learned about cryptocurrency from a roommate who mined bitcoin. “Someone bought a pizza with bitcoin,” he said. “Buying a car with bitcoin didn’t seem that crazy.”

Meanwhile, another dealer from California, Pietro Frigerio said when bitcoin prices surged in 2017, his store sold 20 cars in a month. “More and more, Bitcoin is becoming a common payment form,” Lamborghini said in a statement to Reuters, adding that its dealers are free to decide payment methods.

Peter Saddington, the founder of cryptocurrency startup Emrit, bought a Lamborghini Huracan in 2017 using bitcoin that he bought in 2011 for $115 in a bid to bring attention to his company and cryptocurrency.

“(Tesla’s move) is certainly a PR stunt,” he told Reuters. “But Elon is very progressive in his thinking, so it makes sense to me that he would offer a future currency for his company.”


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