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The Bitcoin community is calling on Tesla CEO Elon Musk to stack Bitcoin as a way to gain the upper hand in his ongoing public feud with US President Donald Trump. “The best way for Elon to get back at Trump is by full porting Bitcoin,†crypto trader and analyst Will Clemente said in a June 6 X post. Echoing a similar sentiment, JAN3 founder and CEO Samson Mow said in an X post on the same day, “@elonmusk, it’s time to go all in on Bitcoin.†Mow urges Tesla to start Bitcoin treasury strategy Mow urged Musk to accept Bitcoin (BTC) payments for Tesla and adopt a Bitcoin treasury strategy. In 2021, Tesla stopped accepting Bitcoin as a means of payment due to environmental concerns. However, the firm still holds digital assets. On April 23, Cointelegraph reported that Tesla’s digital asset holdings dropped 11.61% in value from $1.076 billion to $951 million in Q1. Source: Samson Mow Mow also proposed that Musk’s SpaceX offer launch discounts to customers who pay in Bitcoin. “Force a hard money standard on the money printers,†Mow said. It comes after Mow recently told Cointelegraph Magazine that it’s been three months since Trump signed the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve executive order, but he is yet to buy any additional Bitcoin. He said the US “has to start†acquiring Bitcoin this year to avoid being front-run by other nations. In another comment to Musk, Mow added: “At least do it before they freeze your fiat assets.†Some Bitcoiners speculated that if Musk backed Bitcoin, he wouldn’t hold back. Lomob co-founder and CEO Boyd Cohen said, “If Musk were to go BTC maxi, all bets are off in so many ways. He doesn’t do anything small.†“He’d build or buy his way to the biggest BTC treasury,…