Илон Маск’компания по производству электромобилей, Тесла, проинформировал США. Комиссия по ценным бумагам и биржам (SEC) в ежеквартальной подаче заявления о том, что он может возобновить практику операций с криптовалютами для своих продуктов и услуг.. Tesla приостановила прием биткойнов в мае, citing environmental concerns.
Tesla May Resume Accepting Bitcoin, SEC Filing Shows
Tesla Inc. filed a quarterly отчет with the U.S. Комиссия по ценным бумагам и биржам (SEC) Понедельник.
The company explained that during the nine months ended Sept. 20, Это “purchased an aggregate of $1.50 billion in bitcoin.” In its Q3 earnings report, Тесла’s balance sheet показывает стоимость биткойнов $1.26 миллиард, after reporting bitcoin-related impairments in the past two quarters.
The SEC filing further states that during the three months ended March 31, Тесла “accepted bitcoin as a payment for sales of certain of our products in specified regions, subject to applicable laws.” Однако, 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 триллион for the first time this week, объяснил 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. В мае, he spoke with North American bitcoin miners, after which they formed a Совет по майнингу биткойнов к “promote energy usage transparency & accelerate sustainability initiatives worldwide.”
В июне, Мускус твитнул: “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, он сказал: “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.” Добавил он: “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 (СОБАКА). 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, Категория, и догикоин. журналист Лаура Шин опубликовала статью, в которой утверждается, что, his companies, Tesla and Spacex, only own bitcoin.
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