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Tesla suspends Bitcoin car sales over environmental impact

• Lapsa 6y ago
  fat wario
• koolba 6y ago
  Is it the environment? Or is it to make room to accept doge: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1392030108274159619 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1392030108274159619
  • that_guy_iain 6y ago
    Why not both?
    • koolba 6y ago
      Currency risk for one. Though that could be mitigated through increased prices to pass on the costs to someone else.
• theo-born 6y ago
  Well, there goes Tesla's Dogecoin adoption as well. Proof-of-Work is here to stay for both of those cryptos.
  • headmelted 6y ago
    Going by this.. https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1392030108274159619 https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/13920301082741596... .. one could be forgiven for thinking that Tesla might have bought a lot of Dogecoin in the last quarter. I guess it’s not manipulation if the market isn’t regulated? but thats none of my business
• brianhorakh 6y ago
  Brilliant. Eth proof of stake, or chia proof of space should both qualify.
  • sascha_sl 6y ago
    Proof of stake has the typical issue of people with capital getting even more capital. Chia is threatening to expand the global chip shortage to both SSD and HDD devices and it needs to go away.
• detaro 6y ago
  dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27135776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27135776
• coliveira 6y ago
  So Musk didn't know about the environmental impacts before? There's no way to trust someone who can't even research for 5 minutes before making this kind of decision...
  • croes 6y ago
    He knew exactly. Tesla needs new sorts of income, if the sale of carbon dioxide certificates doesn't generate enough profit.