Bitcoin: a currency of the future?
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The price of Bitcoin soared after Elon Musk announced that he had invested $ 1.5 billion in cryptocurrency.
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By: Romain Auzouy
21 min
The announcement caused quite a stir: earlier this week the Tesla automaker led by the planet's richest man, Elon Musk, said it had invested $ 1.5 billion in bitcoin.
The price of this cryptocurrency then jumped, reaching a record high.
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Philippe Herlin,
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