Bollcoin, October 22 — According to Decrypt, Musk said on SpaceX's Q3 earnings call that both SpaceX and Tesla's boards have formed special committees of independent directors to evaluate the possibility of a merger between the two companies, while stressing that it cannot yet be determined that a deal will be reached. According to Tesla's latest quarterly filing and SpaceX's pre-IPO S-1 filing, the two companies hold 11,509 and 18,712 bitcoins respectively, totaling 30,221 BTC, worth about $2.5 billion at a bitcoin price of roughly $83,000. The two companies' total cost basis for their bitcoin holdings is about $1 billion, with an average purchase price of about $35,000 per coin.