When Elon Musk’s ‘Bitcoin is bad for the environment’ tweet caused a flash crash of BTC and the majority of altcoins’ prices earlier this week, a handful of digital assets headed in the opposite direction, making huge gains amid the sea of red.
Those were the tokens that market themselves as environmentally friendly capitalizing on investors’ immediate instinct that Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) might be switching to some alternative, eco-friendly cryptocurrency soon.