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On Wednesday, March 24, Tesla made history in the crypto community when it announced that they now accept Bitcoin as payment for its top-level cars.
Now, however, Kim Dotcom is trying to persuade the world’s richest man that Bitcoin Cash is much fairer deal when it comes to payments.
Elon Musk agrees that BCH offers lower fees than BTC
Kim Dotcom, a German-Finnish entrepreneur and a political activist (also known as Kimble or Kim Tim Jim Vestor), has commented on Musk’s Wednesday’s tweet about opening a Bitcoin payment option on the Tesla website.
Dotcom pointed out that median transaction fees are much cheaper if you pay in Bitcoin Cash, rather than Bitcoin and suggested that Musk buys Soda with BTC. Kim Dotcom stated that BCH serves the mass market, unlike Bitcoin, which is only for the 1 percent of it.
Musk agreed to the point made by the entrepreneur.
Samson Mow, the CSO of Blockstream, reminded them both that Bitcoin payments via the Lightning network or Liquid Network may help in this case.
Bitcoin plunges despite the Tesla announcement
Curiously, despite yesterday’s announcement of Musk about Bitcoin and Tesla, the BTC exchange rate did not live up to bullish expectations. After rising about $3,000 (from the $53,000 zone to slightly over $57,000), the flagship cryptocurrency plunged overnight to the $52,500 area.
Earlier this year, Elon Musk announced that he had turned into a Bitcoin supporter and that Tesla allocated a whopping $1.5 billion into Bitcoin. Now, as the company is accepting BTC as payments, it also intends to hold the received BTC and not convert it into fiat.
Peter Schiff warns against buying Tesla with BTC
Vocal Bitcoin hater Peter Schiff has taken to Twitter to comment on another Tesla’s step towards embracing Bitcoin.
The CEO of Euro Pacific Capital and a gold bug, Schiff tweeted that in case Bitcoin plunges, the refund made by Tesla in Bitcoin would be lower in the USD – the ultimate count of sale, according to him.