SINGAPORE: Bitcoin jumped above US$39, 000 (RM160, 524) after Elon Musk said Tesla Inc would resume transactions with the cryptocurrency when mining is done with more clean energy.
The electric-car maker will allow bitcoin transactions again “when there’s confirmation of reasonable (~50%) clean energy usage by miners with positive future trend, ” Musk, Tesla’s chief executive officer, said in a tweet.
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