On Monday, January 8, 2021, Tesla announced in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had purchased $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin.[1] This purchase coincided with a dramatic increase in the price of the cryptoasset, which was trading at around $37,000 per Bitcoin on February 5, 2021, but climbed to over $48,000 per Bitcoin on February 11.[2] Bitcoin is unusual in the United States, because it is one of a handful of cryptoassets that are not regarded as securities and regulated as such by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In fact, of cryptoassets with … Read more