{"id":427098,"date":"2021-07-23T11:29:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T05:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=427098"},"modified":"2021-07-23T11:29:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T05:59:43","slug":"elon-musk-says-tesla-most-likely-to-resume-accepting-bitcoin-post-due-diligence-on-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/elon-musk-says-tesla-most-likely-to-resume-accepting-bitcoin-post-due-diligence-on-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says Tesla most likely to resume accepting Bitcoin post \u2018due diligence\u2019 on renewable energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around two months after Tesla\u2019s Elon Musk said the company would stop accepting Bitcoin from customers for its electric cars amid concerns over the environmental impact of the virtual currency, the electric vehicle company is most likely to resume that. Speaking at the Bitcoin-focused conference B Word on Wednesday, Musk said he would confirm with a little more due diligence around the share of renewable energy usage that is involved in mining Bitcoins. \u201cI wanted a little bit more due diligence to confirm that the percentage of renewable energy usage is most likely at or above 50%, and that there is a trend towards increasing that number, and if so Tesla would resume accepting bitcoin\u201d Reuters reported quoting Musk. Musk added, \u201cMost likely the answer is that Tesla would resume accepting bitcoin.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around two months after Tesla\u2019s Elon Musk said the company would stop accepting Bitcoin from customers for its electric cars amid concerns over the environmental impact of the virtual currency, the electric vehicle company is most likely to resume that. Speaking at the Bitcoin-focused conference B Word on Wednesday, Musk said he would confirm with a little more due diligence around the share of renewable energy usage that is involved in mining Bitcoins. \u201cI wanted a little bit more due diligence to confirm that the percentage of renewable energy usage is most likely at or above 50%, and that there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}