Now You Can’t Buy a Tesla With Bitcoin.
As if creating waves in the Dogecoin world isn’t enough, Elon Musk now falls on Bitcoin and pretty much everything on the cryptocurrency market! He just announced that his EV company, Tesla, will not accept Bitcoin for vehicles since it adversely impacts the environment.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 12, 2021 Bitcoin, created through a hardware-intensive mining process, uses large amounts of energy. As this mostly comes from fossil fuels indirectly, encouraging mining can degrade the natural resources rapidly. This, in turn, causes the worst emissions into the environment, especially coal. Thus, they have, for now, suspended the idea of accepting Bitcoin for purchasing their Tesla cars. Yet, Musk said they’d revert their decision of accepting Bitcoin for their EV purchases once the “mining transitions to more sustainable energy.” Further, they look “at other cryptocurrencies that use <1% of Bitcoin’s energy/transaction.” This sudden announcement triggered the investors as Bitcoin is down by 5% just 15 minutes after his tweet. It’s now back to $51,000 and continues to fall at a rapid pace. Other relying altcoins too followed this pursuit include the Dogecoin, which Elon Musk has been praising for the last couple of months. Although, Musk said, “Cryptocurrency is a good idea on many levels, and we believe it has a promising future, but this cannot come at great cost to the environment.” Further, they assured that Tesla’s investment in Bitcoin isn’t altered by this decision, as they continue to hold them.
