Dogecoin: Elon Musk Urges Macdonalds to Accept Meme Coin
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Elon Musk has promised to eat a “happy meal on tv” if fast-food chain McDonalds starts accepting Dogecoin
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The tweet briefly pushed the value of the meme cryptocurrency to $0.1506 from $0.1347
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The latest promotion of the coin by the billionaire comes after Musk revealed that Tesla will begin accepting it for payments
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has demonstrated his support for Dogecoin once again by urging MacDonalds to accept the cryptocurrency.
In a tweet which he sent out today, he claimed that he would “eat a happy meal on tv” if the fast-food chain decides to accept DOGE.
The billionaire’s tweet gave the cryptocurrency a boost, sending the price to $0.1506 from $0.1347 within 15 minutes.
This comes only two weeks after the billionaire revealed that Tesla Inc will begin accepting DOGE as payment for merchandise.
Some of the items that were included in the DOGE sale list were a belt buckle, a whistle, and a mug that reads “S3XY”.
This is not the first time that Elon Musk has been able to influence the cryptocurrency market with his tweets.
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Last year, Musk had repeatedly inflated the price of the digital coin by making multiple tweets about it.
At some point, the billionaire was able to send the value of Dogecoin up by over 10% with a single tweet.
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