イーロン・マスク’s electric car company, テスラ, has informed the U.S. 証券取引委員会 (SEC) in a quarterly filing that it may restart the practice of transacting in cryptocurrencies for its products and services. Tesla suspended accepting bitcoin in May, citing environmental concerns.
Tesla May Resume Accepting Bitcoin, SEC Filing Shows
Tesla Inc. filed a quarterly 報告 with the U.S. 証券取引委員会 (SEC) 月曜日.
The company explained that during the nine months ended Sept. 20, それ “purchased an aggregate of $1.50 billion in bitcoin.” In its Q3 earnings report, テスラ’s balance sheet ショー bitcoin worth $1.26 十億, after reporting bitcoin-related impairments in the past two quarters.
The SEC filing further states that during the three months ended March 31, テスラ “accepted bitcoin as a payment for sales of certain of our products in specified regions, subject to applicable laws.” でも, the company noted that it “suspended this practice in May 2021.” Tesla continued:
We may in the future restart the practice of transacting in cryptocurrencies (‘digital assets’) for our products and services.
The electric car company, whose market cap hit $1 兆 for the first time this week, 説明した that it “suspended vehicle purchases using bitcoin” due to concerns “about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel.”
Tesla CEO Elon Musk then tried to convince bitcoin miners to use renewable energy. In May, he spoke with North American bitcoin miners, after which they formed a ビットコインマイニング評議会 に “promote energy usage transparency & accelerate sustainability initiatives worldwide.”
In June, ムスク つぶやいた: “When there’s confirmation of reasonable (~50%) clean energy usage by miners with positive future trend, Tesla will resume allowing bitcoin transactions.”
At the “B Word” event in July, 彼 言った: “It looks like Bitcoin is shifting a lot more toward renewables and a bunch of the heavy-duty coal plants that were being used … have been shut down, especially in China.” 彼が追加した: “I want to do a little 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 toward increasing that number. If so, Tesla will most likely resume accepting bitcoin.”
While Tesla only accepted bitcoin, Musk conducted a poll on Twitter in May asking his followers if Tesla should accept dogecoin (ドージ). 78.2% of more than 3.9 million votes were in favor of Tesla accepting the meme cryptocurrency. Musk recently confirmed that he personally owns bitcoin, エーテル, そしてドージコイン. その間, his companies, テスラとスペースX, only own bitcoin.
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