After being mentioned as the inventor of Bitcoin late last year, Elon Musk now provides a statement related to the cryptocurrency assets that he has.
Elon Musk, who serves as CEO of three companies at once, SpaceX, Tesla, and The Boring Company, announces the amount of Bitcoin that he has now through his personal Twitter account.
"I do not have any cryptocurrency at all, except the 0.25 BTC given by my friend a few years ago," he wrote in the chirp.
Looking at the value of BTC (Bitcoin) now in the range of USD 10,400 according to data from Coindesk, then the digital currency assets belonging to Elon Musk will cost around USD 2,600 (Rp 35.5 million).
This figure is far below 1% compared to the total wealth of men nicknamed 'Iron Man' is amounted to USD 21.6 billion, or equivalent to Rp 295 trillion, referring to data from the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, as well as put himself in the order of 41 in lined the richest man in the world.
Tweets uploaded by Elon Musk is a response to the number of spam accounts on behalf of himself that spread fraud with frills cryptocurrency.
When asked by one of the accounts of fraud that uses Ethereum (ETH) as a 'feed', he admits not knowing for sure.
"I leave it to Jack to find out, but (search) is still running," he wrote in one cuitan as referring to the name Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter.
The social media platform already provides official statements regarding the number of spam accounts that are in the name of famous people, such as Elon Musk and Donald Trump, with fraud using cryptocurrency.
"We are aware of this manipulation action and are proactively applying a number of precautions to avoid those accounts fraudulent to other users," said a Twitter spokesman.
The mode is the attempt of the fraudsters to trick users with frills to give free cryptocurrency if they follow the instructions according to their directions.
Later, when Twitter users 'eat the bait', the owners of this spam account will actually steal the victim's cryptocurency assets.