SpaceX to be paid in Dogecoin for lunar payload SECTIONS Last Updated: May 09, 2021, 11:16 PM IST Share Synopsis This is the first transaction in which Doge, a token founded in 2013 as a joke, will be used for something beyond tipping and raising small amounts of money ETtech (File Photo) SpaceX SN15 starship prototype liftoffs from the company's starship facility in Boca Chica, Texas, U.S. May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Gene Blevins SpaceX will carry a commercial payload to the moon on its Falcon 9 rocket and be paid entirely in the cryptocurrency Dogecoin. Geometric Energy Corporation announced through PRNewswire that it will collaborate with SpaceX on the DOGE-1 Mission, which will launch a 40kg miniature satellite called a cubesat on a Falcon 9 lunar payload mission early next year.