$DOGE Price Surges After Elon Musk Suggests Twitter 2.0 Will Support Payments

27 November 2022

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On Sunday (27 November 2022), the Dogecoin ($DOGE) price got a nice push higher from a tweet by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who recently bought micro blogging platform Twitter.

Dogecoin was initially released on 6 December 2013, as a “fun and friendly internet currency.” It was created by Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer. It is “a decentralized, peer-to-peer digital currency” that has as its mascot “Doge”, a Shiba Inu (a Japanese breed of dog). Since then, its popularity has substantially increased, especially in the past couple of years, mostly thanks to support by billionaires Elon Musk (the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX) and Mark Cuban. In fact, in 2019, Musk said that $DOGE might be his favorite cryptocurrency.

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Dogecoin might be my fav cryptocurrency. It’s pretty cool.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 2, 2019

As you probably already know, on 27 October 2022, Musk completed his purchase of Twitter:

[crypto-donation-box]

On 1 November 2022, Musk sent out the clearest hint that he wants $DOGE to become the “official” cryptocurrency of Twitter:

Well, around4:13 a.m. UTC on 27 November 2022, Musk sent out a tweet that showed his slide deck for a recent talk he gave at Twitter:

Great to see payments in the fourth slide, it’d be fantastic if you could incorporate #bitcoin lightning there.

— Stephan Livera (@stephanlivera) November 27, 2022

From the last slide in his presentation, it looks like Musk is saying that Twitter 2.0 will support payments, but sadly he is not revealing in what form this support will come.

Well, that was all Dogecoin fans needed to send the price higher, as you can see from the chart below:

Just before sent out the above-mentioned tweet, $DOGE was trading around $0.0891, and currently (as of 2:50 p.m. UTC on 27 November 2022), it is trading around $0.1015, which means a gain of 13.91% in the past 24-hour period. Dogecoin is now the eight most valuable cryptoasset by market cap.

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