{"id":431305,"date":"2020-07-18T01:09:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T01:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/?p=431305"},"modified":"2024-06-11T14:05:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T14:05:21","slug":"asked-bitcoin-elon-musk-jokes-sells-doge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/asked-bitcoin-elon-musk-jokes-sells-doge\/","title":{"rendered":"Asked About Bitcoin, Elon Musk Just Joked He “Only Sells Dogecoin”"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a crazy past few days on Twitter for the Bitcoin and crypto industry.<\/p>\n

The accounts of Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Kanye West, and other prominent celebrities and names\/entites in the cryptocurrency space were hacked to promote a scam involving Bitcoin. For those that don’t remember, the hackers posted tweets from these high-level accounts promising to ‘double’ the deposits of a cryptocurrency to an address.<\/p>\n

Despite the hackers seemingly still at large, Tesla CEO Musk is making light of the situation through the crypto industry’s meme currency.<\/p>\n

Elon Musk Makes Light of “Bitcoin Scam” By Referencing Dogecoin<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When asked by one of his followers “where my f**king Bitcoin is” by one of his followers, the prominent enetrepreneur just responded<\/a> by saying: “Excuse me, I only sell Doge.”<\/p>\n

By Doge, Musk is referring to Dogecoin (DOGE) \u2014 a cryptocurrency worth hundreds of millions of dollars that recently went semi-viral on social media.<\/a><\/p>\n

He published the image below in a tweet shared minutes after the abovementioned comment. The image shows a sandstorm, tagged “dogecoin standard,” engulfing a city, which is tagged the “global financial system.”<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s inevitable pic.twitter.com\/eBKnQm6QyF<\/a><\/p>\n

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n