General Motors CEO Mary Barra admitted that the carmaker will start accepting payments in the first cryptocurrency upon request from customers.
In an interview with CNBC, she said:
“Nothing prevents us from doing this. We will be guided by our customers.”
The automaker is committed to making the acquisition and ownership process “as simple as possible” for its customers, she said.
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By 2035, General Motors plans to move to 100% electric vehicles in its model lineup.
In March 2021, electric car maker Tesla began selling cars for the first cryptocurrency. Already in May, the company suspended accepting bitcoin due to concerns about the environmental friendliness of mining.
In June, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the resumption of work with cryptocurrency is possible if the share of renewable energy in miners’ consumption reaches approximately 50% with positive dynamics.
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The founder and head of the BTC.TOP pool, Jiang Zhuer, told Musk that after the latest prohibitive measures by the Chinese authorities regarding mining, more than half of the bitcoin hashrate is already generated based on green energy.