{"id":1473,"date":"2021-05-13T01:43:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T23:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/13\/elon-musk-says-tesla-will-no-longer-accept-bitcoin-due-to-fossil-fuel-use\/"},"modified":"2021-05-13T01:43:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T23:43:19","slug":"elon-musk-says-tesla-will-no-longer-accept-bitcoin-due-to-fossil-fuel-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/13\/elon-musk-says-tesla-will-no-longer-accept-bitcoin-due-to-fossil-fuel-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says Tesla will no longer accept bitcoin due to fossil fuel use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital currency, which is made with an energy-intensive process that often relies on fossil fuels, fell more than 7% after the tweet <\/p>\n<p>Tesla has suspended the use of bitcoin to purchase its vehicles, Elon Musk said in a tweet on Wednesday, citing concerns about the use of fossil fuel for bitcoin mining.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/05\/dogecoins-record-breaking-rise-shoots-the-cryptocurrency-to-wider-attention\">Dogecoin\u2019s record-breaking rise shoots \u2018joke\u2019 cryptocurrency to wider attention <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/12\/elon-musk-tesla-bitcoin\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/13dab6b0114853296a707f8cb4619c1527b1ffa8\/0_114_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=337a0112d9e2533f7a227f1f14582835\" title=\"Elon Musk says Tesla will no longer accept bitcoin due to fossil fuel use\" \/>Digital currency, which is made with an energy-intensive process that often relies on fossil fuels, fell more than 7% after the tweet<br \/>\nTesla has suspended the use of bitcoin to purchase its vehicles, Elon Musk said in a tweet on Wednesday, citing concerns about the use of fossil fuel for bitcoin mining.<br \/>\n Related: Dogecoin\u2019s record-breaking rise shoots \u2018joke\u2019 cryptocurrency to wider attention   Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital currency, which is made with an energy-intensive process that often relies on fossil fuels, fell more than 7% after the tweet Tesla has suspended the use of bitcoin to purchase its vehicles, Elon Musk said in a tweet on Wednesday, citing concerns about the use of fossil fuel for bitcoin mining. Related: Dogecoin\u2019s record-breaking &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/13\/elon-musk-says-tesla-will-no-longer-accept-bitcoin-due-to-fossil-fuel-use\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk says Tesla will no longer accept bitcoin due to fossil fuel use<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}