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Elon Musk boosts Dogecoin by 76% with a rocket tweet
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Updated: Feb. 20, 2021 at 2:40 am UTC
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has just boosted “meme crypto” Dogecoin (DOGE) in the stratosphere by just tweeting a photograph of a rocket taking off and adding a single word to it: “Doge.”
In just one hour, the price of DOGE surged by up to 75.6% and reached around $0.056. The coin’s 24-hour trading volume has also exceeded $7 billion while its market capitalization currently amounts to $6.4 billion.
Doge
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 4, 2021
After witnessing what he did—again—Musk has burst into a series of meme-tweets, starting with “ur welcome.”
ur welcome pic.twitter.com/e2KF57KLxb
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 4, 2021
Subsequently, Tesla CEO also stated—in quick succession—that “No need to be a gigachad to own,” “Dogecoin is the people’s crypto,” “No highs, no lows, only Doge,” and “Low-key Loki.” For the record, Musk did not clarify whether he was actually trolling his 45.1 million followers or not.
Meanwhile, shortly after the Musk-propelled Dogecoin rocket gained a lot of momentum, CoinGecko reported that its platform is “over capacity,” perhaps due to a sudden influx of DOGE persons and space-loving users.
As CryptoSlate reported, DOGE became the next target—after GameStop’s stock (GME)—of a movement sparked by Reddit group WallStreetBets (WSB). Initially, anonymous retail traders banded together to pump GME—an asset that was heavily shorted by big Wall Street hedge funds.
GME shorting means that institutional traders were profiting off of the stock’s price going down. When the WSB army boosted GME by over 1,500% in just one month, hedge funds such as Melvin Capital suffered huge losses. And that is exactly what WSB’s plan was.
Next time, we try pull *up* method pic.twitter.com/J1M7WHLRDR
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 4, 2021
Just a week ago, DOGE already surged by 800% and entered the top 10 cryptocurrencies as WallStreetBets turned its sights to crypto. After Musk’s tweet today, the coin quickly jumped from 14th to 12th place already.
For more information, explore all meme coins on CryptoSlate.
Dogecoin Market Data
At the time of press 2:40 am UTC on Feb. 20, 2021, Dogecoin is ranked #13 by market cap and the price is down 5.39% over the past 24 hours. Dogecoin has a market capitalization of $6.93 billion with a 24-hour trading volume of $2.73 billion. Learn more about Dogecoin ›
Crypto Market Summary
At the time of press 2:40 am UTC on Feb. 20, 2021, the total crypto market is valued at at $1.72 trillion with a 24-hour volume of $171.62 billion. Bitcoin dominance is currently at 60.96%. Learn more about the crypto market ›
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Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency created in December 2013 as a joke by software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer.
South African-born Elon Musk has founded several companies, including X.com (which later became PayPal), SpaceX and Tesla Motors.