Should You Join the Crypto Craze?
Getty Images In February, Tesla announced in an SEC filing that it bought $1.5 billion in bitcoin. The company said while its goal is to accept payments in bitcoin, it also bought the block chain-based currency for "more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity." Bitcoin boomed in 2020, rising 400 percent over the course of the year and topping $50,000 per bitcoin for the first time in early 2021, with Tesla CEO Elon Musk leading the Twitter cheerleading. Should business owners follow in Musk's foo...