Tesla likely to start accepting bitcoin as payment again, says Elon Musk

Tesla likely to start accepting bitcoin as payment again, says Elon Musk

Tesla will most likely restart accepting bitcoin as payment once it conducts due diligence on the amount of renewable energy used to mine the currency, the founder and boss of the electric carmaker, Elon Musk, has said.

Musk sent the price of bitcoin into freefall in May when he said that Tesla would stop accepting the cryptocurrency for payment because it the so-called mining of the coins used too much fossil fuel-generated electricity.

But his comments at the virtual B Word conference on Wednesday sent bitcoin rising by 8% to $32,160.16, while its rival cryptocurrency ether surged 11.6% to $1,993.36.