Floki: Elon Musk Tweets Name Of New Dog Sending Cryptocurrency Skyrocketing
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Meme master Elon Musk has finally chosen a name for his new dog. Bright and early Friday morning, the serial entrepreneur revealed he plans on naming his new Shibu Inu dog Floki. Naturally, the seven-word tweet sent the cryptocurrency market soaring, with two coins in particular receiving a substantial bump after the announcement.
In addition to Dogecoin, two other cryptocurrencies have received a bump after Musk s twilight tweet on Friday. Hours after the tweet, $SHIB the symbol for digital coin Shiba Inu rose 25-percent in pricing, trading around $0.00000827 per coin. $FLOKI a digital coin named after a character in History Channel s
Elon Musk s SpaceX to send meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin soaring to the moon. Literally
Photo: Elon Musk/Twitter
Elon Musk, or as his Twitter bio describes him, the imperator of Mars may be looking to bring humans to the red planet soon, but that is not his only dream. The Dogecoin enthusiast has repeatedly spoken about how he wants to take the cryptocurrency to the moon (and we don t just mean the rising prices). Now, it would seem that this dream is closer than one might have anticipated.
Elon Musk-run SpaceX is now accepting Dogecoin to launch an upcoming satellite named DOGE-1 to the Moon. According to reports, the satellite will be flown onboard a Falcon 9 rocket in the first quarter of 2022. DOGE-1 is a cubesat to acquire lunar-spatial intelligence using onboard cameras and sensors.