{"id":78211,"date":"2021-05-13T04:46:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T08:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=78211"},"modified":"2021-05-13T04:46:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T08:46:39","slug":"tesla-stops-taking-bitcoin-for-vehicle-purchases-citing-environmental-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2021\/tesla-stops-taking-bitcoin-for-vehicle-purchases-citing-environmental-harm.html","title":{"rendered":"Tesla stops taking Bitcoin for vehicle purchases, citing environmental harm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(The Verge) Tesla has stopped accepting bitcoin as payment for its cars out of concern that it will contribute to greater consumption of fossil fuels, according to a statement CEO Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1392602041025843203\">tweeted<\/a> Wednesday. Tesla had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/3\/24\/22347905\/tesla-bitcoin-payment-us-cryptocurrency-elon-musk\">only just started accepting bitcoin in late March<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/5\/12\/22433153\/tesla-suspend-bitcoin-vehicle-purchase-cryptocurrency-elon-musk\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Verge) Tesla has stopped accepting bitcoin as payment for its cars out of concern that it will contribute to greater consumption of fossil fuels, according to a statement CEO Elon Musk tweeted Wednesday. Tesla had only just started accepting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78212,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78211\/revisions\/78212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}