New Delhi:
Billionaire Elon Musk’s amusing musings on Twitter, Day 3,947. The Tesla CEO on Thursday entertained fans with the suggestion of what he would like to christen a scandal involving him, if there is ever one.
“If there’s ever a scandal about me, *please* call it Elongate,” he wrote on the microblogging internet site, racking up thousands of likes, retweets and comments in just a couple of hours.
Most of the guesses for what such a scandal would look like involved cryptocurrencies or tweets that influenced the stock industry.
If there is ever a scandal about me, *please* get in touch with it Elongate
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 25, 2021
Earlier this week, Tesla Inc added “Technoking of Tesla” to its eccentric chief’s list of official titles in a regulatory filing that also named finance chief Zachary Kirkhorn “Master of Coin.”
The electric-vehicle maker did not clarify the motives for the cryptic new titles.
Mr Musk also shared a new electronic music track about a non-fungible token, or NFT – a new sort of digital asset that is authenticated by blockchain.
“I’m selling this song about NFTs as an NFT,” he mentioned in a tweet, displaying a video of what appeared to be a golden trophy decorated with coins and dog figurines accompanied by a pulsing techno music.
The recognition of NFTs has exploded in the course of the pandemic, as enthusiasts and investors scramble to invest massive sums of revenue on things that only exist on the internet.
Last month, musician and artist Grimes, who is dating Mr Musk, sold some animations she created on a web site referred to as Nifty Gateway for more than $6 million.
Mr Musk’s current promotion of dogecoin on Twitter has also lifted the price tag of that cryptocurrency.
Last month, Tesla revealed it had bought $1.5 billion of bitcoin and would quickly accept it as a type of payment for automobiles, sending the price tag of the world’s most well-known cryptocurrency soaring.
Bitcoin hit new highs of close to $62,000 more than the weekend but retreated about 5% early in the European day on Monday.
In yet another statement, Tesla mentioned President of Automotive Jerome Guillen had moved to the part of President for Tesla Heavy Trucking, to lead Tesla’s entry into “the critical heavy trucks market for the first time.”
Tesla mentioned in January that it will start deliveries of its extended-delayed Tesla Semi trucks in 2021.
(With inputs from Reuters)