Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted a video of his son X Æ A-Xii on Wednesday, captioning the clip ‘Bought some Dogecoin for lil X, so
he can be a toddler hodler’, referring to a form of cryptocurrency. Not too long after, the currency reportedly touched a high of $10.5
billion market capitalisation in Asian trading hours on Monday.
The surge was close to 20% for the most widely cryptocurrency in the
world, hitting a unit-price of over $47,000.
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Tesla on Monday noted that it had bought bitcoins worth $1.5 billion
and would be accepting it as a payment method for buying their cars.
The cryptocurrency, stemming from a popular meme reference about a
Shiba Inu dog, has the animal as its mascot.
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Musk, having more than 45 million Twitter followers, has been recently
active in sending prices soaring for specific companies and their products.
Recently, he had added #bitcoin to his Twitter bio.
Dogecoin originated as a satirical take on the crypto frenzy, which
started a few years back, but is tradable in digital currency exchanges.
The billionaire who overtook Jeff Bezos to become the world’s wealthiest
man a few months back, also wrote “Dogecoin is people’s crypto” in a
subsequent tweet, in an apparent attempt to further float the currency.
