Elon Musk's decision to stop Tesla from accepting bitcoin as payment has led to fresh scrutiny of the cryptocurrency's environmental impact. Musk said Wednesday that Tesla had halted purchases of its vehicles with bitcoin due to concerns over the "rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for bitcoi...
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In fact, a few years ago, Steve WozniaksuedYouTube over the proliferation of similar videos featuring impersonations of the Apple co-founder in order to promote Bitcoin scams. Related Stories Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up....
I also realize now this was an AI generated Elon Musk. Caught up in the moment I seized the opportunity and sent them my .966 Bitcoin. What scams do is to sell people false-hope. Then they take advantage of you. 12. “He wanted to connect with his fans and carry them along in ...
Elon Musk says that bitcoin is a "good thing," and "I don't have a strong opinion on other cryptocurrencies."
The Bitcoin network doesn't have a way to "verify" addresses, so vanity addresses, which are hard to come by, are the closest thing to a "verified" Bitcoin address. The trick of using Elon Musk vanity addresses was, obviously, successful, helping crooks net more than $2 million, but ...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has removed bitcoin from his Twitter bio, which he added last week. Now he says: "Dogecoin is the people’s crypto."
Elon Musk is warning his Twitter followers to be aware of online crypto scams. Scammers have taken over legit Twitter accounts and transformed them to look like Musk's and get Twitter users to turn over bitcoin or other digital cryptocurrency for what they think is a business opportunity. ...
Jim Cramer explains why he's still serious about bitcoin despite Elon Musk's tweets about Dogecoin.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)May 25, 2022 The videos tell their victims they will double their money by sending Bitcoin or Ethereum to a digital-wallet address. A wallet transaction history shows that the scammers made $243,000 in just over a week. Analysts at Whale Alert, a blockchain trac...