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LONDON (Reuters) - Elon Musk says Tesla won’t use or accept bitcoin until he can be sure it’s produced sustainably. He may be waiting some time.
FILE PHOTO: SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during a conversation with legendary game designer Todd Howard (not pictured) at the E3 gaming convention in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 13, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
Musk announced his new position in a major U-turn on Wednesday, prompting speculation among some experts about whether he had a plan to wean the crypto industry off the fossil fuels that power “mining,” the energy-intensive process that creates coins.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Tesla boss Elon Musk is a poster child of low-carbon technology. Yet the electric carmaker’s backing of bitcoin this week could turbo-charge global use of a currency that’s estimated to cause more pollution than a small country every year.
FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, chairman of SolarCity and CEO of Tesla Motors, speaks at SolarCity s Inside Energy Summit in Manhattan, New York, October 2, 2015. REUTERS/Rashid Umar Abbasi/File Photo
Tesla Inc revealed on Monday it had bought $1.5 billion of bitcoin and would soon accept it as payment for cars, sending the price of the cryptocurrency though the roof.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Tesla boss Elon Musk is a poster child of low-carbon technology. Yet the electric carmaker’s backing of bitcoin this week could turbo-charge global use of a currency that’s estimated to cause more pollution than a small country every year.
FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, chairman of SolarCity and CEO of Tesla Motors, speaks at SolarCity s Inside Energy Summit in Manhattan, New York, October 2, 2015. REUTERS/Rashid Umar Abbasi/File Photo
Tesla Inc revealed on Monday it had bought $1.5 billion of bitcoin and would soon accept it as payment for cars, sending the price of the cryptocurrency though the roof.