{"id":37061,"date":"2021-02-26T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T07:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=37061"},"modified":"2025-08-29T09:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:36:57","slug":"elon-musk-comments-on-rumours-of-sec-investigation-into-his-dogecoin-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/elon-musk-comments-on-rumours-of-sec-investigation-into-his-dogecoin-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk comments on rumours of SEC investigation into his Dogecoin tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla founder Elon Musk did not confirm or deny the rumors that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has opened an investigation into his tweets about Dogecoin.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I hope they do. It would be awesome,&#8221; he commented on one of the messages.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I hope they do! It would be awesome \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1365045749407494146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In 2018 the SEC sued the entrepreneur for allegedly misleading statements and, as part of a settlement, forced him to step down as Tesla chairman and pay a fine of $20 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I do not respect the SEC,&#8221; Musk said at the time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He has repeatedly posted on Twitter memes featuring the altcoin symbol\u2014the Shiba Inu dog. The price of the coin typically rose in response.<\/p>\n<p>In early February, the Tesla CEO posted a series of tweets about Dogecoin, which <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-tweets-about-dogecoin-again-as-the-coin-climbs-nearly-50\">boosted the token price by almost 50%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, February 24, Musk again posted a dog image on Twitter \u2014 the price of the coin rose.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Literally <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XBAUqiVsPH\">pic.twitter.com\/XBAUqiVsPH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1364560733472579591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Musk urged large holders of Dogecoin <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-urges-major-dogecoin-holders-to-sell-a-portion-of-their-coins\">to sell some of their coins<\/a> to avoid centralization. More than 28% of the token\u2019s circulating supply or 36.8 billion DOGE <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/more-than-28-of-dogecoins-supply-is-concentrated-in-a-single-address\">are concentrated at a single address<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 all the news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla founder Elon Musk did not confirm or deny the rumors that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has opened an investigation into his tweets about Dogecoin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37062,"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":[99,1217,2111,128],"class_list":["post-37061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-dogecoin","tag-elon-musk","tag-rumors","tag-sec"],"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\/37061","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=37061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37063,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37061\/revisions\/37063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}