The Tesla boss responded to a ‘not true’ Medium post claiming he is the creator of the cryptocurrency who has never been conclusively identifiedElon Musk is a lot of things. Billionaire, space adventurer, transport revolutionary, but not, he says, the inventor of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency coin that crossed the $10,000 valuation threshold early on Tuesday. Whether it's a bad investment is the $70bn question (literally, since that's the current value of all bitcoins in existence). Bitcoin’s value has surged more than tenfold this year and has jumped by 20% in the last three days alone. The total value of bitcoin in circulation now exceeds the stock market values of companies including Boeing, McDonald’s and Disney.

Source: The Guardian November 28, 2017 17:27 UTC