Elon Musk To Sell Shares To Fund Twitter ; Will His Crypto Holdings Be Affected?

Tesla’s shares fell 5.56% on Tuesday as rumors emerged that Musk could be promoting off a few of his in depth holdings of the corporate’s shares to assist fund his Twitter buy, per knowledge from the Lead Lag report.

Extra not too long ago on April 29, it was confirmed that Musk had bought about $8.5 billion value of Tesla shares. Musk himself stated that the quantity could be all of the shares of the corporate he would unload.

Will Musk promote his cryptocurrencies too?

In response to a Reuter report, Musk is seeking to increase the remainder of his $44 billion bid from banks. This suggests that he’s persevering with to maintain his cryptocurrency holdings as he beforehand acknowledged in March of this 12 months.

The transfer factors to his confidence within the crypto property he holds together with Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum(ETH), and Dogecoin (DOGE). Recall that the billionaire beforehand revealed that aside from shares of his corporations, these three cryptocurrencies make up the biggest a part of his private property.

Musk lays out extra plans for Twitter

As Musk is getting nearer to his objective of taking Twitter non-public, he has been laying out extra plans for the corporate. The aforementioned Reuters report revealed that the Tesla CEO shared extra of his plans with the banks he’s in fundraising discussions with.

Musk famous that he’ll significantly improve the platform’s income and introduce new options. Among the many revenue-increasing plans is a proposal to cost web sites a payment when a viral tweet from verified Twitter accounts is quoted, in addition to adjustments to Twitter Blue.

It has additionally emerged that he’s contemplating a crackdown on the pay of executives and can in all probability appoint a alternative for Parag Agrawal who turned CEO final November.

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