Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, an American electric vehicle company, ranked second in the world’s top rankings. The Bloomberg Billionaire Index, which ranks the world’s top 500 richest people, is based on the rise of Tesla’s stock price on the 23rd (local time), and Musk’s wealth increased to $127.9 billion (about 142 trillion won), Microsoft founder Bill Gates. It is reported that it has surpassed ($127.7 billion) and climbed to the second place in the world rankings. The number one in the world is Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon. The photo shows Musk, who is also the founder of the private space company SpaceX, giving a speech on space development at the Washington DC Convention Center on March 9. yunhap news
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, an electric vehicle company in the United States, has been working on the cryptocurrency market as a favourite.
Musk publicly announced on Twitter on the 10th (local time) that he bought Dogecoin, saying, “I bought Dogecoin for Little X.”
X is known to mean Musk’s 9-month-old son.
After Musk’s tweet, Dogecoin is reported to have soared 16%, soaring from $0.069 to $0.08 each.
Musk also tweeted “Dojicoin is a cryptocurrency of the general public” and “It is neither high nor low, only Doji.” He posted a meme that portrayed himself lifting Shiba Inu, the mascot of Dogecoin, or even posted a meme called’Dogue’, which parody fashion magazine Vogue.
Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency hard forked from Bitcoin and was developed by software developers Billy Marcus and Jackson Palmer in 2013.
The name of the cryptocurrency was set after the picture of the Shiba Inu, the representative dog breed of Japan, which became famous on the Internet in 2010. In the United States, the word’dog’ for dog is also called’doge’ by adding the letter e.
Recently, Tesla announced that it had purchased 1.7 trillion won worth of bitcoin, and the bitcoin price has risen significantly.