Electric Cars
As I said in “In the Beginning was the Command Line … then there was Bitcoin”, Neal Stephenson predicted Teslas back in 1999.
Electric Cars: Fast and Quiet and Clean as a Silicon Waffer Laboratory.
Only problem is, they still run on batteries charged by intermittent solar papanels.
Instead of running on Solar Panels backed by Bitcoin.
They need to find a way to run on Bitcoin.
Why?
Here’a take as wild as Marvel’s Spiderverse.
TAKE : In the future, Teslas will be powered by defunct Bitcoin Mining facilities (which are like abandoned energy farms) and so will have so much free energy everywhere that EVs will become as cheap and as fun as gas-powered cars.
Maybe even more fun, as they will literally be huge smartphones on wheels.
Xboxes on wheels?
xAI on wheels?!
Tesla Motors Today
Currently, Tesla Motors is not married to Bitcoin. And Elon, after feuding with POTUS, fell out of favour with the Lords in Washington.
EV susbidies were slashed hard, and Elon had to compete the old fashioned way. Hard-core.
He soon apologized. (He might have tried sleeping on a factory floor like in the good old days).
Yes. EVs are faster than gas cars, but they don’t make any noise “So what’s the point”, Trump might have asked?
Signed off with his classic hand waving.
More criticism from the fossil-fuel literati:
Where is the fear to be struck in the heart of a jaywalking pedestrian, carelessly lumbering into the middle of the road with his foot-subishi?
Do you know why people fear T-rexes? That’s right. The sound. The sound does it.
Otherwise they look like fat lizards.
Lions also make SOUND.
Cheetahs are fast. But if I met one in the wild I wouldn’t shit my pants. Because it doesn’t make a fearful SOUND.
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Tesla’s shares have mostly recovered, but Elon must still be frustrated.
Nobody is respecting his EVs.
Nobody thinks they have teeth.
Except Bitcoin.
Elon did not see to invest in Bitcoin very early on, despite having started a 0-2-1 money startup that became Paypal.
Bitcoin would have helped Tesla build charging grids faster.
Instead, he saw to put a lot of money into Tesla’s AI division.
Still, FSD never comes to market.
Had he taken that fork in the road, he wouldn’t have needed to convince anyone to buy Tesla if his charging grids were part-time Bitcoin miners right from the OG days. (Tesla started in 2004. All Elon had to do was …)
Tesla wouldn’t need EV subsidies, and would have been paying for itself via Bitcoin.
But that’s all the wishy washy past.
Let’s move forward like a Cybertruck.
Bitcoin Mining is a Temporary Business
At the turn of the 21st century, the most profitable business was buying up website domain names everywhere.
People turned a serious profit because they acquired a certain .com or .io and years later, somebody needed it.
(Saylor made hundreds of millions selling domain names)
That game has run its course, and all the good English words for domain names are taken.
What will be cheap in the future?
Bitcoin Mining Systems. They will be dirt cheap. Especially if a quantum computer nukes Bitcoin (which would recover after a few months. Couldn’t say the same for Banking).
Consider that by 2036, only 11 years away. Even at 1 million dollars per bitcoin, Bitcoin miners will be reaping only about ~$300,000 per block.
This sounds like a lot, but is less than what miners today are earning which is ~$343,000 per block!
How hard will the competition be then? Astronomical.
Any source of free heat will likely be a Bitcoin miner.
If you wanted to mine Bitcoin for the next 20 years for profit, you’re better off starting some other business.
You’d rather become like the Free Software Foundation. Set up a Free Bitcoin Mining Foundation.
Tesla’s Chance to Build Solar Panels World Over
What if Tesla bought into the mining game now, even if it missed it earlier on?
Unlike traditional Bitcoin Mining As A Business (BmaaB) which becomes a useless waste of energy if the business will not return a bitcoin profit, if the bitcoins dry up but the energy is still nearly free, driving on free electricity is always going to be profitable for a car company.
Because people will buy cars like mad if there is next to no re-fueling cost.
The more free energy resources (discovered by Bitcoin) that a company like Tesla owns, the more wealth it can gain from renting out the land with this energy. The way McDonalds rented out the land for franchises.
Elon’s next big play, imo, shouldn’t be more servers for FSD. But more land anywhere for power grids sustained by (temporary) Bitcoin Mining operations.
These will then be flipped into Tesla charging stations, as the world economy grows. GDP, Debt, et. al.
I see future Teslas being started up with Bitcoin keys.
Wait, Tesla Bitcoin Nodes?
