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First Person
Opinions, observations and other perspectives
Matt Blom, head of sales and trading at EQUOS, had a lot of fun imagining Tesla’s new price list, below, which appeared in his daily newsletter on Monday.
Even so, Antony Welfare, executive director for enterprise at NEM Software couldn’t help but dwell on the future price of a Tesla Roadster, currently priced at $250,000, or a little over 5 BTC: “By the end of this bull market it will be more like 2 BTC,” he noted in a comment emailed to First Mover by a PR representative.