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Tesla has stopped accepting bitcoin, citing the use of fossil fuels in ‘mining’ cryptocurrency

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Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, said in a tweet on Wednesday that the firm has discontinued the use of bitcoin to buy its vehicles due to climate issues, reversing the company’s position in the face of an uproar from environmentalists and investors. Bitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency, dropped more than 7% after the tweet, trading at $52,669.

Bitcoin, the world’s greatest advanced cash, fell over 7% after the tweet and was exchanging at $52,669. Tesla uncovered in February it had purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin, before it started tolerating it as installment for vehicles in March, driving a generally 20% flood on the planet’s most broadly held cryptographic money.

The advanced money is made when powerful PCs go up against different machines to settle complex numerical riddles, an energy-escalated measure that right now regularly depends on power created with petroleum derivatives, especially coal. At current rates, such bitcoin “mining” eats up about a similar measure of energy every year as the Netherlands did in 2019, the most recent accessible information from the University of Cambridge and the International Energy Agency shows.

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