Elon Musk reveals Tesla will not accept Bitcoin citing fossil fuel use
埃隆·马斯克表示，由于对化石燃料的消耗，特斯拉将不再接受比特币付款
Tesla CEO, Elon Musk has announced that the company has suspended customers’ use of Bitcoin to purchase its vehicles, citing concerns about the use of fossil fuel for bitcoin mining.
特斯拉首席执行官埃隆·马斯克宣布，特斯拉将不再接受客户使用比特币买车，理由是担心挖矿过多消耗化石燃料。
In a statement, Musk noted that Tesla was concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel.
马斯克在一份声明中指出，特斯拉对比特币开采和交易中所消耗化石燃料的迅速增加感到担忧，尤其是对碳排放影响最大的煤。
“Cryptocurrency is a good idea on many levels and we believe it has a promising future, but this cannot come at great cost to the environment,” Musk says.
马斯克称：“从很多层面上来说，加密货币是个好点子，我们相信它会有一个光明的未来，但这绝不能以牺牲环境为代价。”
The Tesla and SpaceX chief is an ardent supporter of cryptocurrencies and has inspired big market swings in the prices of digital coins this year, including Bitcoin and Dogecoin. 身为特斯拉和SpaceX首席执行官的马斯克也是加密货币的狂热支持者，他今年推动了比特币和狗狗币等数字货币价格的大幅波动。
Tesla revealed in February it had bought $1.5bn of bitcoin, before it began accepting it as payment for cars in March. This resulted in a 20% surge in the price of the world’s most widely held cryptocurrency.
在今年3月表示接受比特币付款之前，特斯拉于今年2月宣布，公司已购买了
15亿美元的比特币。该消息使得这一全球最热门的加密货币的价格飙升了20%。
However, climate activists have issued warnings about the substantial amounts of energy consumed by Bitcoin mining.
然而，气候活动家早就对比特币挖矿消耗过多能源提出了警告。
The digital currency is created when high-powered computers compete against other machines to solve complex mathematical puzzles, an energy-intensive process that currently often relies on electricity generated with fossil fuels, particularly coal. 这种数字货币是在高性能计算机与其他计算机竞争解决复杂的数学难题时产生的，其过程属于能源密集型，目前通常是依赖于化石燃料（尤其是煤）进行发电的。
According to a University of Cambridge report released this year, Bitcoin mining consumes as much electricity annually as the entire country of Argentina, with China accounting for some 65% of Bitcoin mining globally.
剑桥大学今年发布的一份报告显示，比特币挖矿每年消耗的电量相当于整个阿根廷的电量消耗量，中国占全球比特币挖矿总量的65%左右。
The Tesla CEO is not totally giving up on Bitcoin though. He also announced that Tesla would not sell any of its Bitcoin and that the electric vehicle maker intends to keep using the cryptocurrency for transactions as soon as mining transitions to more sustainable energy.
不过，马斯克并未完全摒弃比特币。他还表示，特斯拉不会出售任何比特币，一旦比特币能够以更可持续性能源进行挖矿，特斯拉仍将继续支持人们使用比特币付款。
He added that Tesla is looking at more energy-efficient cryptocurrencies. 他补充道，特斯拉正在考虑支持人们使用更节能的加密货币进行付款。
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suspend [s??spend] v. 延缓；推迟；悬浮 ardent [?ɑ?rdnt] adj. 热情的；热心的；激烈的 transition [tr?n?z??n] n. 过渡；转变
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