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Binance's CEO, Zhao Changpeng Set to Buy a Tesla Car with Cryptos from Elon Musk

BY Joshua Trelawen·2 MIN READ·OCTOBER 23, 2018

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and founder of SpaceX, is getting quite popular for his mildly controversial tweets. Going by a recent tweet, Elon Musk who recently made it known that he plans on getting Ethereum even if it is a scam might also be interested in bitcoin.

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Elon Musk Tweeted About Bitcoin

Musk once again excited the online crypto community with a single tweet he made. Musk started the thread with a tweet about how much he loves anime.

 

 

 

After this, he tweeted an anime picture, with the caption “wanna buy some bitcoin?”

The tweet has since then gained more than 15,000 likes.
The source of the amine image which he used has been identified to be from a popular crypto amine website. The website is called the Cryptocurrency Girls. Visitors to the website will find anime illustrations representing various popular cryptos.

Binance’s CEO Wants to Buy Tesla With Crypto

Since the tweet was made, the love it has gained from the crypto and anime community, is quite enormous. The single tweet has reeled in crypto industry celebrity and influencers, who also stated their views and some even gave advise. The most notable contribution on the thread came from Binance’s CEO, Zhao Changpeng. Zhao made Musk an offer which he is still yet to respond to. Zhao asked if Musk would allow him to buy a Tesla making use of crypto.

The tweet from Zhao led to several users asking questions related to Binance. A user also replied Zhao asking him to make Elon Musk take BNB( Binance Native token). To this Zhao who is the founder of the largest crypto exchange by trading volume, replied, that he was about tweeting that, before he had a change of mind to grow the industry first.

The recent tweet from Musk is surely a sign that the crypto industry is growing and is still quite on track.

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