Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Wednesday, March 24th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, you can now use Bitcoin to buy a Tesla. You can now DM anyone on Slack. Intel is now doing

what Ben Thompson has been telling them to do for years. What Medium is doing to

journalists is dumb, what Verizon is doing with Yahoo Plus is dumb, and is the Chief Impact

officer title a real role or is it dumb?

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Hey, you can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin.

Only in the US for now, but coming to everyone later this year, quoting

CMBC. In order to accept the payment, Musk said Tesla is using internal and open source

software. He added that Tesla, quote, operates

Bitcoin nodes directly, end quote. Nodes are computers on

Bitcoin's network that work to verify transactions and avoid the

cryptocurrency from being spent twice.

Tesla's image as an environmentally friendly car company

sits at odds with the Bitcoin Network's

colossal carbon footprint.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge found that it uses more electricity on an annual

basis than the whole of Argentina.

A 2018 paper published in nature, arguably the most prestigious academic journal in the world, found

that Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2 degrees Celsius."

So there's that. Also I guess my only question is, given the two meme religions, the monster ones of Tesla investing and Bitcoin investing, who is the bigger winner in terms of Bullcase scenario from

this news? Actually though I have another question. Wouldn't you feel silly spending

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