The price of Bitcoin fell sharply after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said his company would not accept cryptocurrency as a form of payment for its machines.
Bitcoin fell 12% to $ 50,000. However at the moment we are writing cryptocurrencies are shown at $ 50,600 according to the Bitstamp stock exchange.
Other digital currencies also declined by 14% ethereum and 20% dogcoin.
The reason Tesla will not accept payments in bitcoin for environmental purposes according to Musk. The environmental impact of cryptocurrency mining has been documented over the years.
Tesla has been one of the companies that has supported bitcoin the most even buying $ 1.5 billion in February.
In March Musk had said that people could already buy a Tesla with bitcoin. But it is Musk who in the past has expressed skepticism about cryptocurrencies.
However Tesla will use bitcoin once cryptocurrencies find clean energy sources. / PCWorld Albanian
