Fact-Check: Tesla Removes Bitcoin from Payment Code, Leaving Dogecoin

Fact-Check: Tesla Removes Bitcoin from Payment Code, Leaving Dogecoin

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A swift fact-check has just unraveled the rumors surrounding Tesla’s alleged addition of Bitcoin (BTC) to its payment page source code. Colin Wu, a prominent Chinese reporter, took to Twitter to dispel the speculations and set the record straight. Contrary to the buzz in the cryp...

Fact-Check: Tesla Removes Bitcoin from Payment Code, Leaving Dogecoin
  • Tesla’s alleged addition of Bitcoin code has been debunked.
  • Dogecoin remains on the Tesla payment source code.
  • In 2021, Tesla cited environmental concerns to halt BTC payments.
A swift fact-check has just unraveled the rumors surrounding Tesla’s alleged addition of Bitcoin (BTC) to its payment page source code. Colin Wu, a prominent Chinese reporter, took to Twitter to dispel the speculations and set the record straight.

Contrary to the buzz in the crypto community, it has been confirmed that Bitcoin and Dogecoin were, in fact, already embedded in Tesla’s source code as far back as January 2023 based on information retrieved from the web archive. According to Wu, Tesla made no attempts to edit its source code when it previously discontinued the option to pay with Bitcoin.

However, Tesla has not remaine…

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