Elon Musk posts a raunchy tweet about bitcoin hitting $69,000 – and the crypto community loves it

Elon Musk posts a raunchy tweet about bitcoin hitting $69,000 – and the crypto community loves it

Tesla CEO and cryptocurrency champion Elon Musk on Thursday posted a raunchy tweet about bitcoin's of $69,000 the day before, prompting responses from thousands of users. The cartoon featured a man and a woman in bed watching stand at $69,000 on their TV, followed by a comparatively lackluster ether at $4,200. His tweet might have been inspired by the fact that bitcoin rallied to a record of nearly $67,000 on Wednesday, following the successful launch of the ProShares' Bitcoin Strategy ETF, the first futures fund. The tweets have in the past caused coins such as bitcoin, dogecoin and even shiba to rise in price, although his post on Wednesday didn't elicit much reaction in the market. Tesla 42,902 bitcoins now worth almost $2.8 billion, according to . However, the company reported it had a $51 million on those holding in the third quarter.