Tesla will ‘most likely’ restart accepting bitcoin as payments, says Musk By Reuters – Investing.com

Tesla will ‘most likely’ restart accepting bitcoin as payments, says Musk By Reuters – Investing.com

By Noor Zainab Hussain and Nivedita Balu

(Reuters) - Electric-car maker Tesla (NASDAQ:) Inc will most likely restart accepting bitcoin as payments once it conducts due diligence on the amount of renewable energy used to mine the currency, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said at a conference on Wednesday.

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