Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter has tipped 62% of Dogecoin (DOGE) buyers into revenue, amid hypothesis that Musk’s Twitter-buy might be optimistic for the meme token.
DOGE’s value rallied on Oct. 26 when billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk modified his Twitter bio to “Chief of Twit” — the identical day he visited Twitter’s San Francisco-based headquarters earlier than formally closing the deal as the brand new proprietor on Oct. 28.
Up to now seven days, DOGE’s value has surged 98.5% to $0.119 on the time of writing, according to CoinGecko.
Which means as a lot as 62% of DOGE holders are “Making Cash at Present Value” according to knowledge from blockchain intelligence platform IntoTheBlock — which even beats out Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) hodlers at 54% and 57% respectively.
The occasions have additionally triggered DOGE’s market cap to surpass sensible contract platforms Cardano and Solana into turning into the eighth largest cryptocurrency on this planet with a $16.3 billion market cap, according to CoinGecko.
The hyperlink between Musk’s Twitter buy and DOGE’s large value surge ought to come as no shock as many Dogecoin buyers have excessive hopes for Musk — nicknamed “The Dogefather” — to combine Dogecoin onto Twitter in some form or type.
Dogecoin fanatic and crypto blogger Matt Wallace informed his 678,400 followers on Oct. 28 that he believes a Dogecoin-integrated Twitter would showcase “what #Dogecoin is able to.”:
Due to Elon Musk, Twitter will quickly showcase to the whole world what #Dogecoin is able to!
— Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888) October 28, 2022
Whereas Dogecoin fan web page “Doge Whisperer” speculated {that a} Dogecoin-based tip system might be applied for common tweets:
Can’t look forward to Twitter so as to add #dogecoin as an possibility for tipping
What do you assume @elonmusk ? pic.twitter.com/b7Eqz9hpEs
— Doge Whisperer (@TDogewhisperer) October 30, 2022
Even Cardano CEO and founder Charles Hoskinson has weighed in — stating there’s now a “actual chance” of Dogecoin integrating on to Twitter:
Now that Twitter is within the fingers of @elonmusk I can see an actual chance that doge will in some way merge with the platform.
— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) October 28, 2022
Hoskinson then went one step additional by offering emigrate Dogecoin on to Cardano as a sidechain with embedded sensible contract performance without spending a dime.
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In Jan. 2022, Tesla started accepting DOGE as a fee technique for merchandise purchases, with Musk additionally hinting at doing the identical factor at SpaceX in Could. 2022.
The electrical car firm additionally started accepting Bitcoin-based fee for its vehicles in Jan. 2021, regardless of the CEO taking the view that Dogecoin is “higher fitted to transactions” in Dec. 2021.
