It seems that Elona Muska still enjoys manipulating the price of cryptocurrencies, and once again speaks publicly on this topic. expressed. He now claims that Tesla will start accepting bitcoins again. The only condition is that 50% of the energy used for extraction and transactions comes from renewable sources.
Musk issued the statement at The B Word Conference, where he was spoken to, among others, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. In addition to bitcoin, participants also commented on other cryptocurrencies, such as ethereum or dogecoin.
At the beginning of the year, Tesla surprised many fans of cryptocurrencies by purchase bitcoins worth $ 1.5 billion. Subsequently, it also announced that it would accept payments for its electric cars in this currency. This catapulted the price of cryptocurrencies upwards, and for some time it was really possible to buy Tesla for bitcoins (only in the USA).
However, as early as May, Musk expressed concern about ecological the effects of the use of cryptocurrencies and the new payment option has been abolished. Now Musk is reconsidering the adoption of cryptocurrencies, but makes the condition of using renewable resources.
As the pressure on organic mining and cryptocurrency transactions increases, Musk believes he will soon reintroduce bitcoin payments. He also admitted that his other company, SpaceX, also owns a certain amount of this popular cryptocurrency, and is not yet going to sell it.
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