{"id":42241,"date":"2021-05-11T11:33:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T08:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=42241"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:21:12","slug":"elon-musk-weighs-up-selling-tesla-for-dogecoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/elon-musk-weighs-up-selling-tesla-for-dogecoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk weighs up selling Tesla for Dogecoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla founder Elon Musk has asked users on Twitter to vote on whether his company should accept payments in Dogecoin.<\/p>\n<p>As of writing, 78.9% of those polled supported the idea.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Do you want Tesla to accept Doge?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1392030108274159619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Back in March, Elon Musk announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-says-tesla-has-begun-selling-electric-cars-for-bitcoin\">launch of Tesla electric-vehicle sales for Bitcoin<\/a> in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the billionaire said that in 2022 SpaceX will launch the Doge-1 satellite to the Moon. According to him, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/spacex-to-launch-doge-1-satellite-to-the-moon-mission-paid-for-in-dogecoin\">the mission is fully funded by the meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a February 2021 interview, Musk said that storing savings in digital assets was unwise. He noted that those wishing to trade cryptocurrencies may &#8216;have fun&#8217;, and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-urges-caution-in-cryptocurrency-investing\">the success of Dogecoin depends on &#8216;the will of the people&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla founder Elon Musk asked users on Twitter to vote on whether his company should accept Dogecoin payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42242,"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":[99,1217,167,1319],"class_list":["post-42241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-dogecoin","tag-elon-musk","tag-research","tag-tesla"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"44","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42241","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=42241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42243,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42241\/revisions\/42243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}