Hey everybody Rob Mauer here and today we're going to be talking a little bit about Elon

Musk's appearance at the B-word conference, his discussion with Kathy Wood and Jack

Dorsey about Bitcoin, but a couple mentions of SpaceX and Tesla in there.

Then we've got some financial news, Tesla reportedly planning to redeem some of their

previously issued bonds early, we'll talk about the details there, plus Tesla has sold

off some assets from the Maxwell Technologies acquisition, we've also got an update

on the full self-driving subscription to change that Tesla has made there, and a couple

other items.

First up, quick look at the stock, Tesla finishing down 0.8% on the day to day, $655.29,

that did trail the NASDAQ which finished up 9.10% of a percent today.

Alright, we'll start off with Elon Musk's appearance at the B-word conference, this was

about an hour and 10 minute or so discussion with Kathy Wood and Jack Dorsey as I mentioned.

Obviously, this was mostly focused on Bitcoin, but Elon did bring up Tesla a few times,

from the discussion overall, it just clear that Tesla is still holding its Bitcoin position,

and there was a decent amount of time spent on the environmental cost of Bitcoin and a discussion

around that.

Elon basically reiterating what he had said previously, that when Tesla decided to stop accepting

Bitcoin as a payment option, it was because they had seen what they thought appeared to

be a spike in non-renewable energy, dirty energy being used to mine Bitcoin, which also

coincided with the big price increase in Bitcoin, and that can incentivize some of that poor

behavior.

Basically, as Elon put it, there wouldn't be a way to get renewable energy sources up

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