Is Musk manipulating bitcoin price using his trigger-happy Twitter finger? RT’s Boom Bust digs into billionaire’s crypto craze

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Elon Musk’s tweets have recently been causing huge movements in the crypto market, while his company Tesla’s $1.5 billion bitcoin bet sent the digital currency soaring to record highs.

RT’s Boom Bust sat down with Michele Schneider of MarketGauge.com to discuss Tesla’s move and whether the eccentric billionaire used his earlier Twitter posts to prop up the price of bitcoin for his own benefit.

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