The poll, launched by Elon Musk on Saturday, in which he offered to sell Tesla shares to pay taxes, has concluded. More than 3.5 million people participated in the survey, 57.9% of which came out as ‘Yes’, Tesla shares fell.
With Tesla stocks on the rise, Elon Musk’s wealth, 300 billion dollars had exceeded. With this wealth, Musk sat on the seat of the richest person in the world, and outpaced his closest rival by more than $ 100 billion. However, Musk did not pay taxes, as he did not realize his earnings from the shares.
While the tax debates for billionaires, which Elon Musk reacted to last week, continued, an interesting move came from Musk on Saturday. Musk to pay his taxes by opening a poll on Twitter 10% of Tesla shares (about $21 billion) offered to sell. The majority of his followers also declared that he would accept whatever the answer was.
The survey has ended, the result is “Yes”:
The survey, which was attended by 3,519,252 people on Twitter, ended. The result of the survey was ‘Yes’ with a rate of 57.9%. With the end of the survey, the drop in Tesla shares, which was expected from the beginning with the opening of the survey on Saturday, also took place. Tesla shares, with the opening of stock markets It lost more than 7% of its value. According to Forbes data, Elon Musk owns 23% of Tesla.
Money from Musk’s Tesla entered the cryptocurrency industry:
On the other hand, with the certainty that Musk will sell his Tesla shares, the crypto money market has started to rise. The rise that started with the opening of the stock markets this morning Ethereumbroke the record for the highest level of all time. Bitcoin also threw itself over the $ 65 thousand threshold again.
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