Dogecoin Skyrockets 20% In Minutes, Flipping Terra and Polkadot On News Of Tesla Acceptance
Elon Musk’s tweet today that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as a payment method for its merchandise has generated excitement among proponents and pumped the cryptocurrency’s price by 24% to $0.20, flipping Terra and Polkadot to become 9th largest cryptocurrency. “Tesla will make some merch buyable with Doge & see how it goes.” The cryptocurrency is now 5,859% up over the past year, specifically helped by tweets and support by the billionaire. Musk has also said that he would support more established use cases. However, the highest price attainment for Dogecoin happened in May when it reached $0.68 and it has not been easy to defend that. In fact since then, like most cryptocurrencies, Dogecoin has been on a downward trend losing 70% of its value. However, Dogecoin’s losses have been multiplying since mid-last month and Musk’s support comes in handy to save it. DOGEUSD Chart By TradingView Musk did not specify what merchandise will be included in the testi...