A month and a half after calling bitcoin "Brilliant," the Tesla and SpaceX founder lauded one of the crypto market's longest-running, and famously whimsical, alternatives.
"Dogecoin might be my fav cryptocurrency. It's pretty cool," Musk tweeted Tuesday.
His praise for the meme-inspired asset came in response to an April Fool's Day poll posted the day before by the official Dogecoin account asking who should be the cryptocurrency's next CEO. Musk won with 54 percent of the vote.
"Am considering selling for $4.20B. Funding secured."
That was a reference to an infamous older post from the Tesla CEO that ultimately led to a Securities and Exchange Commission action.
For those who don't get it: Last summer, Musk tweeted that he had secured funding to sell his electric car company at $420 per share.
The statement proved to be untrue, ultimately costing Musk personally his chairmanship of the company and $20 million.
Skeptics who followed Musk's tendency to troll the internet took note of the price: "420," a number that's familiar code to pot users.
Hence Palmer's asking price of "$4.2 billion.
Palmer, it should be noted, is not involved with this or any cryptocurrency.
Elon Musk Calls Dogecoin 'My Fav Cryptocurrency'
gepubliceerd op Apr 2, 2019
by Coindesk | gepubliceerd op Coinage
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