Pied piper Musk conveniently ignored bitcoin’s inconvenient truth
The Tesla CEO has done an about-turn on the crypto currency after saying in February it would accept it as payment
13 May 2021 - 20:27
When electric carmaker Tesla Inc said in February it would buy $1.5bn (about R21,3bn) worth of bitcoin and start accepting it as payment, billionaire boss Elon Musk had little to say about the crypto currency’s wasteful energy consumption, despite the obvious inconsistency with his firm’s green credentials...
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