Following the decision to stop accepting Bitcoin for vehicle payment, Tesla Inc. may announce Dogecoin as a replacement for Bitcoin.
On Wednesday, Elon Musk, the Chief Executive Officer, Tesla Inc, said the company is looking at cryptocurrencies that use less than 1 percent of Bitcoin’s energy for transactions.
This was two days after Musk, in a poll, asked if his over 54 million followers, want Tesla to accept Dogecoin, a meme coin he has aggressively promoted to the mainstream.
The billionaire said “Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin. We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel.
“Cryptocurrency is a good idea on many levels and we believe it has a promising future, but this cannot come at a great cost to the environment.
“Tesla will not be selling any Bitcoin and we intend to use it for transactions as soon as mining transitions to more sustainable energy. We are also looking at other cryptocurrencies that use <1% of Bitcoin’s energy/transaction.”
Millions of Dogecoin traders and investors have started projecting that the Doge Father will announce Dogecoin as a Bitcoin replacement going by his tweet and the poll.
