
Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk said the company has suspended accepting bitcoin as payment for its vehicles.
“We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal,” Mr. Musk said Wednesday on Twitter.
Bitcoin’s value against the dollar fell more than 5% after Mr. Musk’s tweet.
Tesla earlier this year began to accept the cryptocurrency as payment for products sold in the U.S. The company also made a big financial bet on bitcoin when it bought $1.5 billion worth of the cryptocurrency in the first quarter. Tesla has since sold some of those holdings, a move that boosted first-quarter earnings.
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