Elon Musk Sends Dogecoin Price Sharply Higher – For a Moment
Elon Musk, the Tesla billionaire who adopted dogecoin as his pet project, has again sent the memecoin’s price sharply higher – at least for a moment.
The bitcoin price was largely unmoved following a tongue-in-cheek attack by Musk on Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey’s plan to expand bitcoin awareness among companies and institutions with a bitcoin-focused online event.
However, dogecoin jumped 20% higher as supporters of the doge meme-based cryptocurrency cheered Musk’s latest Twitter intervention.
Musk responded to Dorsey that he’d be interested in attending the online event, posting to Twitter: “For the bitcurious? Very well then, let’s do it.”
“As more companies and institutions get into the mix, we all want to help protect and spread what makes bitcoin open development so perfect,” Dorsey, who recently told the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami that if it wasn’t for Twitter and his payments company Square he would be working on bitcoin full time, posted to Twitter alongside a link to The ₿ Word—a bitcoin-focused online event that says it aims to “demystify and destigmatize mainstream narratives about bitcoin.
The #bitcoin development community above all else.
As more companies and institutions get into the mix, we all want to help protect and spread what makes #bitcoin open development so perfect.
“Let’s you and I have a conversation at the event,” Dorsey replied, suggesting Musk could “share all your curiosities,” but Musk dismissed the invitation, replying: “Lmfao omg.”
Bizarre!
Let’s you and I have a conversation at the event. You can share all your curiosities…
The ₿ Word event, scheduled for July 21, will feature Cathie Wood, the chief executive of investment management firm Ark Invest, and bitcoin developer Adam Back, the chief executive of Blockstream, amongst others.
Corporate and institutional bitcoin adoption has been one of the biggest drivers of the bitcoin price in 2021, with Musk himself adding $1.5 billion of bitcoin to Tesla’s balance sheet early in the year—following in the footsteps of Microstratgy, a business intelligence software company that’s gone all in on bitcoin.
Earlier, Musk asked: “How many bitcoin maxis does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Musk then accused so-called bitcoin maxis of being po-faced. “‘That’s not funny!’—bitcoin maxis,” he tweeted.
At the time of writing Dogecoin trades at $0.24 with 15% loss at 24-hour window.
