Elon Musk's decision to stop Tesla from accepting bitcoin as payment has led to fresh scrutiny of the cryptocurrency's environmental impact. Musk said …
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Elon Musk’s reversal on bitcoin
Cryptocurrencies have surged with help from Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Tesla recently bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin and said it would allow customers to buy cars with bitcoin. And leading up to his “Saturday Night Live” hosting gig, Musk talked up digital currencies like dogecoin. But now, Tesla says it will stop accepting bitcoin as payment amid concerns about the environmental impact of mining crypto. CNBC explains what these currencies are, how to buy them and what the concerns are.
The price of dogecoin fell sharply Thursday morning, sliding below 40 cents per coin, after Tesla CEO and crypto booster Elon Musk announced that the …
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Internet Computer, a cryptocurrency that just launched on Monday now has a market value of about $35.8 billion, according to CoinMarketCap, trading …
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Bitcoin's biggest rival, ether, blew past $4,300 this week to hit a new record high, and at one point was up nearly 500% for the year. While it is …
CNBC's Jim Cramer said Tuesday he owns ether, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency by market value. "I've got a lot of ether," Cramer said on …
Glauber Contessoto says that on April 15 at 6:00 p.m. PDT, he became a dogecoin millionaire. "I was up all night staring at my screen," Contessoto, …
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