Tesla CEO Elon Musk has stirred the proverbial “doges' nest” as soon as once more with one other tweet concerning the quintessential meme coin, Dog
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has stirred the proverbial “doges’ nest” as soon as once more with one other tweet concerning the quintessential meme coin, Dogecoin (DOGE).
Tweeting on Tuesday, Musk ran a Twitter ballot asking respondents whether or not they need Tesla to just accept Dogecoin as a cost technique.
Would you like Tesla to just accept Doge?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Might 11, 2021
The ballot, posted at 8:00 a.m. UTC, garnered over 400,00zero responses within the first 10 minutes and is sort of on the a million mark as of the time of writing. Musk’s Twitter ballot will run for 24 hours and could possibly be a precursor to the corporate including the favored meme coin as a cost technique.
Dogecoin proponents have been urging the Tesla CEO so as to add the Shiba Inu-themed cryptocurrency to its listing of accepted cost strategies given Musk’s obvious fondness for the token.
Certainly, responses to the ballot has been overwhelmingly favorable with about 78% of respondents in assist of Tesla accepting Dogecoin funds.
As anticipated, Musk’s tweet has triggered a big response within the Dogecoin worth with the 15-minute chart displaying a sudden worth motion surge for DOGE coinciding with the time when the ballot was revealed.
Dogecoin is up greater than 10,600% year-to-date and appeared on track for the $1 mark earlier in Might on the again of feverish market enthusiasm.
Such has been the Dogecoin enthusiasm that web search curiosity for DOGE outstripped Bitcoin for the primary time in line with Google Tendencies.
Tuesday’s tweet is the newest linking Dogecoin to one in all Musk’s corporations. As beforehand reported by Cointelegraph, Geometric Power Company — a Canadian manufacturing and logistics agency — has introduced plans for a DOGE-fueled payload on one in all SpaceX’s first rockets to the moon.
Tesla already accepts Bitcoin (BTC) as a cost technique for its electrical automobiles. The corporate made the announcement again in March whereas additionally stating its intentions to run a Bitcoin node. Tesla has additionally acknowledged that it’ll “HODL” the BTC funds acquired for its vehicles.