Elon Musk asks Twitter followers if Tesla should accept Dogecoin - Al Jazeera English

On Tuesday, Elon Musk posted a poll on his Twitter account asking his 53.9 million followers: ‘Do you want Tesla to accept Doge?’.

On Tuesday, Elon Musk posted a poll on his Twitter account asking his 53.9 million followers: “Do you want Tesla to accept Doge?”.

The Twitter poll comes just days after the Tesla and SpaceX chief called Dogecoin a “hustle” during his guest host appearance on Saturday Night Live – a United States comedy sketch show.

Musk, a fervent supporter of cryptocurrencies, has this year inspired big market-moving swings in the price of digital coins, including Dogecoin and Bitcoin.

In January, Bitcoin surged when he posted #bitcoin to his Twitter feed.

The Tesla chief’s Tuesday poll on Dogecoin received over 2.3 million responses so far.

Starting as a joke, Dogecoin surged more than 16,000 percent the past year but was down after Musk’s comment