You Musk be joking: Is Elon simply messing with us over DOGE?

Elon Musk, the billionaire founding father of Tesla and SpaceX, has touted the revolutionary influence of cryptocurrencies – whereas seemingly poking enjoyable on the idea in the identical breath.

In a video that was uploaded by Kevin Svenson, Musk might be heard saying, “there’s a good likelihood that crypto is the longer term forex of Earth.” How ironic wouldn’t it be if Dogecoin (DOGE), the coin invented as a joke, wins out in the long run, Musk contemplated.

Elon Musk talks about $DOGE Coin
(Launched 4 Hours In the past)@elonmusk stated “There’s a good likelihood that #Crypto is the longer term forex of Earth … however which one is it going to be?” #Doge #DogeCoin #Bitcoin #cryptocurrency #cryptocurrencies #DOge pic.twitter.com/HDaf5jw3Xx

— Kevin Svenson (@KevinSvenson_) February 6, 2021

“What could be essentially the most ironic end result? That the forex that was invented as a joke in truth turns into an actual forex,” he stated.

DOGE has been on the heart of an enormous pump-and-dump spurred on by Reddit merchants and buyers who’ve turn into extremely receptive to Musk’s tweets. The latter camp isn’t small, both.

A current report from Blockchain Analysis Lab titled, How Elon Musk’s Twitter exercise strikes cryptocurrency markets, confirmed the billionaire has a optimistic affect on digital asset values and buying and selling every time he tweets about them.

The report stated:

“Throughout all occasions, we establish vital will increase in buying and selling quantity which might be attributable to the occasions.”

Musk’s potential to maneuver the markets via Twitter has left some buyers nervous given the enigmatic CEO’s turbulent historical past with the USA Securities and Trade Fee, or SEC.

As CNBC studies, Musk’s tweets had been behind the current 12% surge in CD Projekt, which created the role-playing online game Cyberpunk 2077. Though Musk’s tweet had substance – specifically, that Tesla’s Mannequin S Plaid automotive would enable passengers to play the sport – his obvious shilling of the GameStop quick squeeze might have adverse penalties for retail merchants who get caught up within the hype.

After breaking above $500 in late January, GameStop’s share value has plunged all the best way again to the sub-$70 degree. 

Musk has run afoul of the SEC previously after tweeting his want to take Tesla non-public at $420 per share. He and Tesla every needed to pay the securities regulator a $20 million nice to settle fraud prices associated to the tweet. The settlements had critical ramifications for the electrical automobile maker’s company construction:

“The settlements, that are topic to court docket approval, will end in complete company governance and different reforms at Tesla—together with Musk’s elimination as Chairman of the Tesla board—and the fee by Musk and Tesla of economic penalties.”

“I don’t respect the SEC,” Musk stated after he paid the nice.

Regardless of the regulatory backlash, Musk instructed 60 Minutes in a Dec 2018 interview that his tweets won’t be censored. He defined:

“The one tweets that must be say reviewed could be if a tweet had a chance of inflicting a motion within the inventory.”