Tesla Sold About 75% of Its Bitcoin to Add $936 Million to Balance Sheet
Tesla Inc. said a Bitcoin impairment affected its second-quarter earnings and that it has converted about 75% of its Bitcoin purchases into fiat currency.
The conversions added $936 million of cash to the balance sheet, Tesla said in its earnings statement Wednesday. The automaker didn’t specify the size of the impairment. Bloomberg Intelligence said July 15 that the quarterly results could include a Bitcoin-related charge of about $740 million.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has expressed interest in Bitcoin and Dogecoin and at one point allowed customers to buy the company’s electric cars with Bitcoin. It later suspended the Bitcoin payment option citing environmental concerns about Bitcoin mining.
July 25, 2022