Why Elon Musk is tweeting about dogecoin early Sunday morning is anyone’s guess. But the small cryptocurrency spiked 20% following the SpaceX CEO’s weekend Twitter antics.
- At 9:30 UTC, Musk opened Twitter and wrote to his 40 million followers, “One word: Doge.”
- DOGE immediately spiked to $0.0047, its highest mark since early July. At press time, some of the gains had been retraced with DOGE trading hands at $0.0045 on Binance.
- Musk also fired off a series of entertaining - and often racy - bitcoin tweets (here, here, here, here). In one he said "Bitcoin is almost as BS as fiat money," which could be construed as a backhanded compliment if one tries hard enough.
- Dogecoin, a meme-based cryptocurrency, made headlines in July after TikTok users started a campaign dedicated to pushing the price of 1 DOGE above $1, per CoinDesk’s prior reporting.
- Tweeting about dogecoin is nothing new for Musk. The billionaire inventor has called dogecoin his “fav cryptocurrency” in the past (abbreviation for “favorite”) in addition to temporarily including the label “CEO of Dogecoin” in his Twitter account biography. Sunday morning, Musk's account describes him as "Former CEO of Dogecoin."
- At last check, dogecoin reached a total market capitalization of $588 million, per OnChainFX.
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