Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, who provoked an intraday pump of Dogecoin (DOGE) last week, keeps joking with the crypto community on Twitter. On Thursday, he posted an image from \u2018The Lion King\u2019 that showed himself holding up a dog symbolizing Dogecoin:Source: TwitterLater, he followed up with another tweet where he stated that Dogecoin is the people\u2019s crypto:Source: TwitterThe price of Dogecoin increased by almost 50% just within an hour after the tweets were posted. That is not the first time that Musk\u2019s tweets have triggered price pumps of Dogecoin.During the weekend, the billionaire created a poll, asking if Dogecoin will become the future currency of the Earth:Source: TwitterIt is still unclear if the founder of Tesla is simply joking with the crypto community or is shilling a cryptocurrency he has already bought.Nevertheless, his series of tweets has lifted the price of Dogecoin, turning it into the tenth biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, according to CoinGecko.Interestingly, it seems that other influential people on Twitter are also starting to apply Musk\u2019s approach to shill their cryptocurrencies. For example, well-known crypto investor Michael Novogratz called his new haircut \u2018$link marine haircut\u2019, trying to promote the cryptocurrency LINK (Chainlink), which he has probably bought recently:Source: TwitterLast week, Forbes presented a list of the cryptocurrency billionaires. Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, topped the ranking. His fortune is estimated at $6.5 billion. Among the top 10 in the ranking are also Michael Saylor, the CEO of software firm MicroStrategy with a net worth of $2 billion; Changpeng Zhao (\u201cCZ\u201d), the founder of crypto exchange Binance with a net worth of $1.9 billion; Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss with a net worth of $1.6 billion each.It is worth mentioning that these crypto billionaires have been recently quite active on Twitter, promoting certain cryptocurrencies as\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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