So Musk didn't know about the environmental impacts before? There's no way to trust someone who can't even research for 5 minutes before making this kind of decision...

He knew exactly. Tesla needs new sorts of income, if the sale of carbon dioxide certificates doesn't generate enough profit.

Is it the environment? Or is it to make room to accept doge: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1392030108274159619

Why not both?

Currency risk for one. Though that could be mitigated through increased prices to pass on the costs to someone else.

Brilliant. Eth proof of stake, or chia proof of space should both qualify.

Proof of stake has the typical issue of people with capital getting even more capital.

Chia is threatening to expand the global chip shortage to both SSD and HDD devices and it needs to go away.

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27135776

Going by this..

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/13920301082741596...

.. one could be forgiven for thinking that Tesla might have bought a lot of Dogecoin in the last quarter.

I guess it’s not manipulation if the market isn’t regulated?

but thats none of my business