{"id":35590,"date":"2021-01-29T17:20:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T15:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35590"},"modified":"2025-08-29T02:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:00:47","slug":"elon-musk-tweet-immortalised-on-the-bitcoin-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/elon-musk-tweet-immortalised-on-the-bitcoin-blockchain\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk tweet immortalised on the Bitcoin blockchain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In block 668,197 of the Bitcoin network, the text of one of Elon Musk&#8217;s tweets, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, was inserted.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u00abIn retrospect, it was inevitable\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Recorded on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> blockchain in block 668,197. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iPCxM2Fz5a\">https:\/\/t.co\/iPCxM2Fz5a<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9S0NTN0Vpj\">pic.twitter.com\/9S0NTN0Vpj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rafael Schultze-Kraft (@n3ocortex) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/n3ocortex\/status\/1355154846131826689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLooking back, it was inevitable,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Most users viewed this as a continuation of the Dogecoin (DOGE) storyline.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Musk again supported the cryptocurrency by posting an image of a dog.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a6kmk0PEgM\">pic.twitter.com\/a6kmk0PEgM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1354924057825837060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This occurred amid a rapid rise in the coin\u2019s price, sparked by members of the r\/SatoshiStreetBets community on Reddit. In 24 hours the cryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/dogecoin-enters-the-top-10-cryptocurrencies-by-market-capitalization\">rose roughly tenfold<\/a>, reaching a new all-time high of $0.078.<\/p>\n<p>The Tesla chief has not been the first to draw attention to DOGE. In July 2020, Musk posted a tweet about the prospects for using Dogecoin technology as a global financial system. The coin rose 17%.<\/p>\n<p>In December the entrepreneur <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/strange-bitcoin-jokes-posted-on-elon-musks-twitter-account-hack-suspected\">again mentioned the cryptocurrency<\/a> \u2014 DOGE\u2019s price reacted with a rise.<\/p>\n<p>Today, January 29, Musk added the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-posts-bitcoin-hashtag-on-twitter-as-cryptocurrency-climbs-to-38000\">Bitcoin hashtag<\/a> to the description of his Twitter account, which has 44 million followers. After this the leading cryptocurrency rose by $6,250 in an hour, topping $38,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">+$6,250 in one hour <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/snWkV7OS9C\">pic.twitter.com\/snWkV7OS9C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Crypto\u20bfull (@CryptoBull) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CryptoBull\/status\/1355132412355817475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the comments on the blockchain-embedded tweet, a user asked Musk to mention Ethereum somehow, apparently hoping for a pump.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe only need $2,000,\u201d he clarified the target.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On January 19, Ethereum\u2019s price reached a new high of around $1,440. At the time of writing the second-largest cryptocurrency was trading around $1,410 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CoinGecko<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Forklog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In block 668,197 of the Bitcoin network, text from one of Elon Musk&#8217;s tweets was inserted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1217],"class_list":["post-35590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-elon-musk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35592,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35590\/revisions\/35592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}