Not a day without one”Elonada”. Yeah mid Sunday Twitter held its breath Waiting to see the blue icon that once verified the accounts of relevant people fade away, billionaire Elon Musk surprised everyone on Monday with a move that could cost him a fine for stock manipulation.
He social network icon change that he bought for a value of more than 44,000 million dollars, for that of the popular cryptocurrency Dogecoin could seem like a joke for teenagers.
At least, that is how its manager wanted to represent it, who yesterday published a tweet with the message “as promised”, to which he attached screenshots of the responses to the request that he was once made to buy the social network, “…and change the bird logo to a dog logo” a follower encouraged him.
This could remain a mere anecdote if it were not for details such as that Elon Musk faces a sanction of 258,000 million dollars for manipulate the price of Dogecointhe cryptocurrency that emerged from the meme whose icon now appears in the header of the Twitter website.
The tycoon has been hoarding Dogecoin since 2013, when it was created almost as a joke in response to the massive appearance of cryptocurrencies. Since then, Elon’s winks at the Shiba Inu token have been constant and every time he has Its price has skyrocketed, reaching percentages of over 36,000%.
Dogecoin has not been the only cryptocurrency that Musk has flirted with, who for a time added the hashtag to his profile #bitcointriggering its price with this simple gesture.
It should be remembered that Elon Musk has claimed numerous times to be a big investor in Dogecoin and has maintained them since its inception. In fact, Dogecoin is one of the assets, along with Bitcoin, in which Tesla has invested the most, which accepts it as a form of payment in some of its products.
In summary, if when opening Twitter in your browser you have wondered Why does a Shiba Inu icon appear where the blue Twitter bird should be?you will find the answer in the Dogecoin price which, by the way, its price has skyrocketed by 30% since Elon Musk ordered the change in the icon of the social network.
It remains to be seen if this movement has the same judicial consequences as the previous ones and if the controversial billionaire is worth a new lawsuit for Dogecoin value manipulation.
