The head of Tesla and SpaceX said that he is ready to eat “Happy Meal” live if the fast food chain adds “meme” cryptocurrency to payment methodsTesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Twitter urged fast food restaurant chain McDonald’s to start accepting Dogecoin as a means of payment. The businessman said that he was ready to eat “Happy Meal” live if McDonald’s starts accepting “meme” cryptocurrency.
I will eat a happy meal on tv if @McDonalds accepts Dogecoin
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 25, 2022
After Musk posted on Twitter, the price of Dogecoin immediately increased by 15% to $0.15, the “meme” cryptocurrency is trading at $0.13. Over the month, the asset has fallen in price by 27%.
Last week, Elon Musk criticized the integration of NFT into the social network Twitter. The businessman said that he was annoyed by the fact that the developers of the social network are wasting time on “nonsense”, while Twitter is flooded with a large number of crypto scammers and spam bots.
This is annoying pic.twitter.com/KAkDl29CTX
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, 2022
Earlier, CNBC TV host Jim Cramer warned that holders of the “meme” Dogecoin cryptocurrency should be careful. According to Cramer, the Doge will fall under the supervision of regulators, since it is an unregistered security.
please be careful with Dogecoin…It is a security. It will be regulated. We will find out how many there are and how many are being created each day to make money for the exchanges.
— Jim Cramer (@jimcramer) January 20, 2022