Elon Musk Has Alienated His Army of Bitcoin Fans 18 May 2021 Vice News reports that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency users are extremely upset with Tesla CEO Elon Musk after it was announced that Tesla would no longer accept Bitcoin as payment citing environmental concerns. Motherboard by Vice News reports in an article titled “Bitcoiners Are So, So Mad at Elon Musk,” that cryptocurrency fans are currently extremely upset with Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk after the billionaire tweeted that Tesla would no longer be accepting Bitcoin as payment due to environmental concerns. “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,” Musk stated at the time. Tesla is currently holding more than a billion dollars worth of Bitcoin which it doesn’t plan to spend yet, with Musk stating that it will be used for transactions “as soon as mining transitions to more sustainable energy.” Tesla is also “looking at other cryptocurrencies that use