Tesla Bitcoin Shocker: 5 Top Tweets as Investors Try to Digest Elon Musk’s Flip Flop

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Elon Musk has caught the attention of crypto investors again but this time it’s by dropping a shocker on them about the future of Bitcoin (CCC:BTC-USD) and Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA).

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The Tesla CEO posted a Tweet yesterday announcing that the company is no longer accepting Bitcoin for payments. It reads as follows.

“Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin. We are concerned about the rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel.

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.

Tesla will not be selling any Bitcoin and we intend to use it for transactions as soon as mining transitions to more sustainable energy. We are also looking at other cryptocurrencies that use <1% of Bitcoin’s energy/transaction.”

Following that Tweet, Musk responded by saying that the energy usage trend for Bitcoin over the past few months is insane.

The shocker from Elon Musk about Bitcoin and Tesla brought out quite a few responses from users on Twitter (NYSE:TWTR). Let’s take a look at some of those below.

It comes as no surprise that some users are hoping for Tesla to replace Bitcoin with Dogecoin (CCC:DOGE-USD). Musk has been a vocal supporter of the cryptocurrnecy. He even asked Twitter users on Tuesday if they wanted to electric vehicle (EV) company to start accepting the crypto.

TSLA stock was up slightly while the price of BTC was down 11.4% as of Thursday morning.

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On the date of publication, William White did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article.


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