SEATTLE: Tesla hit the brakes on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) on letting people pay for electric cars with Bitcoin, saying the computing-intense mining process of creating new cryptocurrency spews climate-harming emissions.

“We are concerned about the rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel,” Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said in a tweet.

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