Electric car maker Tesla will stop accepting Bitcoin as a payment, CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Wednesday, citing environmental concerns.


"We are concerned about rapid increasing use of fossil fuels f...or Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel," Musk said on Twitter. He added that cryptocurrency is a "good idea on many levels" but its promise cannot come at a "great cost to the environment."

Tesla, he added, won't be selling any of the Bitcoin it owns.

The price of Bitcoin fell about 5% to $51,847 after Musk's comments on Twitter. Tesla's stock finished Wednesday down 4.4%.

Tesla said in February that it had invested around $1.5 billion in Bitcoin and it planned to begin accepting the digital currency as payment "soon." The fair market value of Tesla's Bitcoin holdings as of March 31 was $2.48 billion, according to securities filings.

Bitcoin relies on computers, which rely on electricity, to exist. The number of computers and the energy needed to power them is rising — the growing value of Bitcoin is directly tied to the amount of energy it uses.

Bitcoin miners unlock Bitcoins by solving complex, unique puzzles. As the value of Bitcoin goes up, the puzzles become increasingly more difficult, and it requires more computer power to solve them. Estimates on how much energy Bitcoin uses vary.

A 2019 study by researchers at the Technical University of Munich and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concluded that, in late 2018, the entire Bitcoin network was responsible for up to 22.9 million tons of CO2 per year — similar to a large Western city or an entire developing country like Sri Lanka. Total global emissions of the greenhouse gas from the burning of fossil fuels were about 37 billion tons last year.

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Sharp increase in ETH prices drove Binance to a full-stop for a moment.
So much so they had to ...suspend withdrawals and this could mean only one thing. Binance does not have the money on hand.

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The world's leading cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has selected Liquid as an identity verification partner for its Japanese platform. The services of the Tokyo-headquartered biometrics firm will allow Binanc...e Japan to ensure its know-your-customer (KYC) procedures comply with Japan's strict regulations.

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In an impressive feat for the blockchain world, a monumental 1 billion non-fungible token (NFT) assets have been issued across 16 major blockchain networks.

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Brazil's Congress advances legislation to levy higher taxes on cryptocurrencies held overseas, aiming to ensure equal tax treatment and reduce disparities. The proposed changes could reshape the crypto market i...n Brazil.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) dedication to overseeing the cryptocurrency sector has received a strong affirmation from one of its former officials, John Reed Stark.

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