{"id":12678,"date":"2021-09-30T01:54:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T01:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-opposes-governments-regulating-crypto-says-they-should-do-nothing\/"},"modified":"2021-09-30T01:54:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T01:54:03","slug":"tesla-ceo-elon-musk-opposes-governments-regulating-crypto-says-they-should-do-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-opposes-governments-regulating-crypto-says-they-should-do-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla CEO Elon Musk Opposes Governments Regulating Crypto, Says They Should \u2018Do Nothing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks governments should not try to regulate cryptocurrency. \u201cI would say, do nothing,\u201d he recommended. Musk believes that it is not possible to destroy crypto, but governments can \u201cslow down its advancement.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elon Musk Says Governments Should \u2018Do Nothing\u2019 and Leave Crypto Alone<\/h2>\n

Tesla CEO Elon Musk discussed cryptocurrency and China on Tuesday at Code Conference in Beverly Hills, California. Responding to a question from New York Times columnist Kara Swisher about whether it is \u201cthe right thing\u201d for governments to regulate and take control of cryptocurrency, and whether it is possible for them to do so, he said:<\/p>\n

It is not possible to, I think, destroy crypto but it is possible for governments to slow down its advancement.<\/p>\n

Musk was specifically asked what the U.S. government should do regarding cryptocurrency. The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, was on stage at the conference earlier and he called cryptocurrency the Wild West of finance. The SEC chief also stressed that cryptocurrency will \u201cnot end well<\/a>\u201d if it stays outside the purview of regulators.<\/p>\n

Responding to the question of what the SEC should do about crypto, if anything, the Tesla boss said:<\/p>\n

I would say, do nothing.<\/p>\n

He emphasized, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t [do anything], seriously,\u201d elaborating that governments should \u201cjust let it play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk proceeded to talk about the long-term role of cryptocurrency in monetary systems. He noted that crypto \u201cwill hopefully reduce the error and latency in the money system, the legacy money system.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tesla technoking<\/a> has shown his support for cryptocurrency on several occasions. In August, he spoke against<\/a> governments proposing \u201chasty\u201d crypto legislation. Musk previously revealed<\/a> that he personally owned bitcoin, ethereum, and dogecoin while his companies, Tesla and Spacex, just owned bitcoin. He hinted in July that Tesla owned<\/a> about 42K BTC<\/a>. Furthermore, Musk is sometimes called the Dogefather for his support<\/a> of the meme cryptocurrency dogecoin. He sees DOGE as the \u201cstrongest<\/a>\u201d cryptocurrency for payments.<\/p>\n

Regarding cryptocurrency in China, Musk was asked at the conference what the Chinese government is doing about cryptocurrency and bitcoin. He replied: \u201cWell, it would appear that they don\u2019t love cryptocurrency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Without specifically stating the reasons why China has been cracking down on crypto, he said, \u201cChina is having some significant electricity generation issues.\u201d The Tesla CEO opined: \u201cSo, I think part of it may actually be due to electricity shortages in many parts of China. A lot of South China right now is having random power outages because the power demand is higher than expected so crypto mining might be playing a role in that. I\u2019m not sure.\u201d He concluded:<\/p>\n

I suppose cryptocurrency is fundamentally aimed at reducing the power of a centralized government and they don\u2019t like that.<\/p>\n

Do you agree with Elon Musk that governments should \u201cdo nothing\u201d and leave crypto alone? Let us know in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks governments should not try to regulate cryptocurrency. \u201cI would say, do nothing,\u201d he recommended. Musk believes that it is not possible to destroy crypto, but governments can \u201cslow down its advancement.\u201d Elon Musk Says Governments Should \u2018Do Nothing\u2019 and Leave Crypto Alone Tesla CEO Elon Musk discussed cryptocurrency and China…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain-news","category-coin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}