Billy Markus shared “instructions” on how the Dogecoin community should behave to get businesses to start accepting Doge payments
Dogecoin cofounder Billy Markus, who created Dogecoin together with Jackson Palmer back in 2013 as a joke and a Bitcoin parody, has taken to Twitter to offer directions to the Dogecoin community as to how to get businesses to start accepting DOGE for their products and services.
On Twitter, Markus is known as “Shibetoshi Nakamoto”. Even though Markus is no longer on the project, he continues to support Dogecoin and its “family” with his tweets, often exchanging public messages with Elon Musk, DOGE’s biggest fan with great influence on both the community DOGE and, often, also on the price of the same original part.
“If you want companies to accept Dogecoin,” then…
After the recent tweet by Elon Musk addressed to McDonald’s urging the fast food giant to start accepting Dogecoin, and the tweets by Burger King and MrBeast Burger that followed, Markus decided to share his view on how the DOGE community should behave in order not to push companies away from Dogecoin.
He shared a list of instructions in his recent tweet. The most practical advice here is to show businesses why accepting Dogecoin can benefit them and provide win-win scenarios.
Other advice includes “not to be jerks” and not to get entitled or angry when persuading them. These days, such conversations with businesses are often done on Twitter, so these directions may come in handy. Besides, the community of another meme cryptocurrency—Shiba Inu, “The Doge Killer”—has been trying to urge such giants as Amazon to start accepting SHIB and persuading the Robinhood brokerage to list it by tagging them constantly in tweets.
In the past, the Dogecoin community has urged Tesla to start accepting DOGE in the same way. In December, their “prayers were answered”, so to speak, and Elon Musk announced that the company would start selling some of its wares for the same crypto “to see how it goes”.
“Global companies won’t accept DOGE tomorrow”
“Shibetoshi Nakamoto” Markus also admitted that global giants will hardly start accepting DOGE payments in a short amount of time.
However, he encouraged the community not to take it negatively but to gradually persuade them and keep a good attitude.
As an example of this attitude, on Jan. 26, Billy Markus retweeted MrBeast Burger’s tweet instead of Elon Musk and urged the community that the Doge Army could provide all the necessary engagement for the U.S. fast food brand without Musk.
Before that, MrBeast Burger’s Twitter account asked Musk to retweet his post and promised to work to accept Dogecoin for it. Tesla CEO didn’t respond, but Billy Markus did instead.
