Talk about star power! On Monday afternoon, Elon Musk, an entrepreneur with the cult following of all cult followings, suddenly signal boosted the crypto space, dedicating an entire tweet to the word “Ethereum.” His intentions remain unclear.<\/p>\n
Funnily enough, this comes just days after Musk\/his lawyers and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) settled a deal about his often mischievous, laugh-inducing use of Twitter. According to a TechCrunch report<\/a>, the Tesla Motors chief executive will need to seek approval for his tweets if said message involves his companies’ financial statuses, nonpublic legal information, new or proposed businesses, the sale or purchase of company sales, among other things.<\/p>\n It appears this brief mentioning of “Ethereum” does not fit into the above restrictions, unless Musk is actually preparing to delve into cryptocurrencies of course.<\/p>\n In July of 2018, Elon Musk made his first mentioning of Ethereum, but not really. As reported<\/a> by NewsBTC previously, the SpaceX founder poked fun at what he called “Ethereium scambots,” by replying to a user jokingly asking for cryptocurrency by saying the Ether he ‘promised’ was “coming, I swear.” In a later tweet, Musk joked that he “wants ETH, even if it is a scam, ” evidently referring to the incessant stream of crypto-scamming bots flooding his mentions.<\/p>\n And on Monday, as aforementioned, Musk continued his run-ins with the cryptocurrency community, posting the tweet below, before a subsequent “jk.” Musk’s sporadic use of Twitter quickly elicited a bubbly response from the crypto community at large.<\/p>\n Gabor Gurbacs of VanEck’s crypto division and Blockstream’s Samson Mow shilled Bitcoin as Justin Sun did the same for his own cryptocurrency, Tron. Analyst The Crypto Dog posted a chart of ETH, while trader Cache wrote “$14.”<\/p>\n Ethereum<\/p>\n — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nRelated Reading: Twitter Crypto Scammers Steal $150K by Posing as Elon Musk<\/a><\/h6>\n
One Tweet Boosts “Ethereum” Google Search Volume<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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