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Bitcoin dives on Musk U-Turn on taking Bitcoin as payment

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A late tweet from Elon Musk sent Bitcoin prices into freefall. Elon Musk decided that the environmental impact of Bitcoin mining has become too significant, his tweet was a major reversal for Tesla. Musk’s decision for Tesla to suspend acceptance of Bitcoin as payment for a car is a big hit for mainstream acceptance.

The environmental impact from mining Bitcoins was one of the biggest risks for the entire crypto market. Over the past couple of months, everyone disregarded news that Bitcoin uses more electricity than Argentina and Norway. Elon Musk’s tweet is Tesla getting ahead of the ESG movement. Shockingly, this did not become a bigger story until now. Bitcoin is in the danger zone and now everyone is scrambling to see which cryptocurrencies have the lowest energy transactions. Some buyers emerged on Bitcoin’s break of the $47,000 level, but I wouldn’t be surprised if sellers remained in control over the short-term.

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Ed Moya

Ed Moya

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With more than 20 years’ trading experience, Ed Moya was a Senior Market Analyst with OANDA for the Americas from November 2018 to November 2023.

His particular expertise lies across a wide range of asset classes including FX, commodities, fixed income, stocks and cryptocurrencies.

Over the course of his career, Ed has worked with some of the leading forex brokerages, research teams and news departments on Wall Street including Global Forex Trading, FX Solutions and Trading Advantage. Prior to OANDA he worked with TradeTheNews.com, where he provided market analysis on economic data and corporate news.

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Ed holds a BA in Economics from Rutgers University.
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