{"id":36249,"date":"2021-02-11T10:54:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T08:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36249"},"modified":"2025-08-29T05:22:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:22:45","slug":"elon-musk-buys-dogecoin-for-his-younger-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/elon-musk-buys-dogecoin-for-his-younger-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk buys Dogecoin for his younger son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of Tesla and SpaceX said he bought Dogecoin cryptocurrency for his younger son.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3rWE9uHSTS\">pic.twitter.com\/3rWE9uHSTS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1359545545900048386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 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>&#8220;I bought a little Dogecoin for X so that he would be a little hodler,&#8221; Musk wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>X \u00c6 A-12 (pronounced &#8216;Ex A-Twelve&#8217;) is Elon Musk&#8217;s son with Canadian musician Grimes, born in May 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in February, Dogecoin <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-tweets-about-dogecoin-again-as-the-coin-climbs-nearly-50\">rose by almost 50%<\/a> in less than an hour after a series of Elon Musk&#8217;s tweets. The businessman has repeatedly expressed his fondness for the coin.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier billionaire Mark Cuban also <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/mark-cuban-buys-dogecoin-for-his-11-year-old-son-for-educational-purposes\">bought Dogecoin for his 11-year-old son<\/a> for educational purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of Tesla and SpaceX said he bought Dogecoin for his younger son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36250,"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":[99,1217],"class_list":["post-36249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-dogecoin","tag-elon-musk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"66","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36249","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=36249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36251,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36249\/revisions\/36251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}