The Dogecoin price dropped significantly after setting an impressive record, trading in early May at $ 0.73. The cryptocurrency, launched as a joke, is currently rated.
Speaking on The Howard Stern Show, the Weekend Update anchor and SNL head writer Michael Che revealed some of his sketches that never made it to air on the sketch show.
Australian Dogecoin co-creator Jackson Palmer took aim at Elon Musk in a string of since-deleted tweets last week, writing: Reminder: Elon Musk is and always will be a self-absorbed grifter.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been making waves in the cryptocurrency space the past few days as the company has announced they will cease to accept Bitcoin payments for cars. Many of Musk s loyal followers were flabbergasted all day by the seemingly 180 degree change of direction by the billionaire CEO, and just to make things even more confusing, Elon tweeted this out just now.
Working with Doge devs to improve system transaction efficiency. Potentially promising. Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2021
Earlier in the day, Musk attempted to backtrack seemingly negative comments about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining, saying, to be clear, I strongly believe in crypto, but it can t drive a massive increase in fossil fuel use, especially coal. This comes the day after posting on Twitter that we are looking at other cryptocurrencies that use
The most consequential characters that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk played during his
Saturday Night Live hosting gig over the weekend were not Wario and a murderous priest. Far more important: his two-minute appearance as a cryptocurrency expert named Lloyd Ostertag during “Weekend Update,” as well as his monologue, in which he played himself. In both cases, he mentioned Dogecoin. By the end of the night, the price of the meme-inspired cryptocurrency had fallen by about 20 percent.
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Musk refers to himself as the “Dogefather,” thanks to his repeated promotion of, and evident influence over, Dogecoin, the price of which has soared since the beginning of the year. His enthusiasm for Bitcoin, too, has coincided with the latest run-up in the cryptocurrency’s price, which was nudged higher in January when Tesla bought more than a $1 billion of the cryptocurrency and later said it would accept it as payment for cars. That changed on Wednesday when Musk announce