In the tech world, many people tend to look to CEOs such as Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey for their next cues. After all, Jack Dorsey is the founder of Twitter and one of the head honchos at Square; social media influencers all over the world continually pay homage to the eccentric man, who attends silence retreats and boasts strange eating patterns. However, Dorsey’s recent public experimentation with lightning networks has many in the crypto community excited for the future. He’s blatantly stated that he believes bitcoin will rise to become the native currency of the internet, which is a pretty bold statement coming from such a fintech innovator. And some are downright frustrated by the fact that Dorsey only seems to want to dip his toes into the community. Although he is a thought leader in this space and seems to believe in the concept, something about crypto makes him reticent to dive in head first. On Twitter, a reporter tried to ask Dorsey how much Bitcoin he is holding, as Dorsey has admitted to only holding BTC. His coy reply was “Enough”, which drove crypto Twitter crazy once again.
Elon Musk is another very interesting case. Some would say that he revolutionized payment systems when he founded the company that eventually became known as PayPal. But he hasn’t seemed to have jumped into the crypto community as fast as most would like. On Twitter, he copped to owning just 0.25 BTC, which breaks down to about $1,000 worth of the cryptocurrency. For a man who purportedly wields a net worth of approximately $21 billion, this seems somewhat shocking. To complicate matters, Musk has recently made some incredibly bullish statements on crypto. Recent quotes have him stating that he believes crypto possesses major advantages over conventional money. Twitter responses to Musk’s statements were varied and interesting, with some even claiming that Musk is Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakomoto himself. This, of course, is a wild claim that doesn’t seem to hold much water. Musk has been so busy with Tesla and SpaceX that it seems highly improbable that he would have also had the time—or the inclination—to create Bitcoin. Other users competed for the privilege of sending Musk more crypto. Although there seems to be a lot of uncertainty with these “tech bro” responses to Bitcoin, it definitely seems like the future won’t be boring.
