$ is my guess. not in the pump and dump way, but my guess is that tesla will come out with a "green energy miner" and he's setting the stage. he owns solar city, tesla has battery banks, slap a mining rip on that and boom you got a product the liberal pussies will go apeshit over. here's what i dont understand. bitcoin uses a lot of energy... in comparison to what? the energy it takes to create the batteries and cars tesla sells? every brick and mortar bank that has heating,elec,gas costs? how about the printing of money and the energy it consumes or the trees needed? how about the gas used simply to transport the fucking cash from one place to the next? how about all the employees of the banks and financial markets driving to and from work everyday? whatever you think of bitcoin is fine and that's a worthy discussion, but what the fuck are you comparing the energy usage to? if you're really interested, Michael Saylor has a good response to Elon's tweet talking about how much energy we fucking waste every year. no one gives a shit about that until this tweet comes out. just another example that facts do not matter in clown world, it's all about the biggest pussies feelings.