{"id":42870,"date":"2021-05-20T18:09:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T15:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=42870"},"modified":"2025-08-31T01:06:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T22:06:29","slug":"dogecoin-climbs-after-elon-musk-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/dogecoin-climbs-after-elon-musk-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogecoin climbs after Elon Musk tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, May 20, the price of Dogecoin rose by 21.1% after another tweet from Elon Musk mentioning the cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The founder of Tesla posted on Twitter a post with a photograph of a dollar bill bearing the Dogecoin logo and the caption \u201cCyber Viking\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">How much is that Doge in the window? <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/bxTkWOr50V\\\">pic.twitter.com\/bxTkWOr50V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1395328697436033032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">May 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\\\"\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cHow much is that Doge in the window?\u201d, Musk asked.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In response, some users expressed their discontent; others said that supposedly <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cemarsx\/status\/1395329102794698754\\\" title=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cemarsx\/status\/1395329102794698754\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\\\">\u201ceveryone lost\u201d<\/a> due to the businessman. On May 17, angry Musk followers<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/discontent-over-elon-musks-tweets-spawns-the-fuckelon-token\">issued the token Fuck Elon Tweet<\/a>(FUCKELON).<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, Dogecoin was trading at around $0.41. The project&#8217;s market capitalisation approached $60 billion \u2014 it ranked seventh on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/currencies\/dogecoin\/\\\">CoinMarketCap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Musk said that Dogecoin could<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-dogecoin-could-win-hands-down-against-bitcoin\">\u201cwithout effort\u201d<\/a> beat Bitcoin. Previously, the team behind the meme cryptocurrency said that<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/dogecoin-developers-say-they-have-been-working-with-elon-musk-since-2019\">has been working with the businessman since 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in May 2021, Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-criticises-bitcoin-for-centralisation-and-threatens-to-bet-it-all-on-doge\">criticised Bitcoin<\/a> for centralisation and threatened to bet everything on Dogecoin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, May 20, the price of Dogecoin rose by 21.1% after another Elon Musk tweet mentioning the cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42871,"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-42870","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":"45","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42870","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=42870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42872,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42870\/revisions\/42872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}