Will the fake Dogecoin CEO please stand up?
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to social media platform Twitter to announce that he was going to be the fake CEO of Dogecoin.
This came after Billy Markus, the co-founder of the viral meme cryptocurrency, tweeted that he would announce who would take the job position later today.
It looks like Musk has already derailed the ad by volunteering to take the top spot.
Musk went on to tweet that Floki, his Shiba Inu dog, would do a great job as well:
In April 2019, the Tesla boss was named CEO of the Dogecoin community as an April Fool’s joke. Musk won a Twitter poll that also included Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Litecoin creator Charlie Lee and Metal CEO Marshall Hayner.
However, the farce then went too far. In early 2021, Dogecoin staged a monstrous rally that catapulted the cryptocurrency from the joke to the top spots on the crypto charts. In early May, its market capitalization reached $ 90 billion.
Musk argued that a joke coin becoming a viable currency would be the “most ironic outcome”:
Fate loves irony. What would be the most ironic result? Money that started out as a joke actually becomes real money.
