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Tesla founder Elon Musk says the car maker will no longer accept Bitcoin for purchases. In a statement he cited concerns about the "rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions". We get reaction to the news from Olinga Ta'eed, who is an adviser to the Chinese government on digital currency, and director of the UK-based Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance. Also in the programme, Mr Musk is at odds with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos over investment in competing projects to build a space craft to land on the moon. David Whitehouse is a scientist and author of books about technology in space, and has been studying the entrepreneurs' rivalry. And Keith Cowing, editor of NASA Watch tells us whether Mr Musk's SpaceX or Mr Bezos's Blue Origin is likely to be first to make it back to the moon. The 大象传媒's Theo Leggett reports on the biggest tunnelling machine ever used in the UK, which officially starts work today, cutting through the chalk beneath the Chiltern Hills northwest of London. Plus financial incentives are being offered in the US to boost flagging coronavirus vaccine take-up rates, including free entry to a $1m lottery in Ohio; we hear from Dr Kevin Schulman, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. (Picture: Commemorative Bitcoins next to a Tesla car badge. Picture credit: Getty Images.)