Dogecoin (DOGE) continues its rebound move four weeks after bottoming near $0.10 and is now promising more upside moves in Q2/2022. Dogecoin price nears two-month highs DOGE's price had risen by nearly 6.5% week-to-date to $0.15 a token. The coin's recent gains surfaced after Elon Musk disclosed his $3-billion stake in Twitter on Monday, reiterating his influence on its market. Musk has been a big supporter of the Dogecoin community, including his decision to accept DOGE payments at his company Tesla's online merchandise store. As Cointelegraph reported, Musk’s investment could help push Twitter’s crypto initiatives forward and even see DOGE …

Whenever Elon Musk does something on Twitter, the crypto market moves in response. Publishing a tweet, changing his profile picture or adding “#Bitcoin” on his bio affects the markets — the latter even more so, sending Bitcoin (BTC) price up by 20%. This is why the community lies in anticipation of what Musk‘s Twitter investment could mean for the crypto industry. Recent filings show that Tesla CEO Elon Musk purchased a 9.2% stake on Twitter. This makes him the largest stakeholder in the platform. The news instantly pumped Twitter shares by more than 22% in early trading and sent Dogecoin …

Bitcoin (BTC) traded in uncertain territory on April 4 as the Wall Street open failed to unleash bullish continuation. Trader gives $43,000 BTC near-term dip target Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD dipping above and below the $46,000 mark Monday, continuing a low-volatility few days. The pair had managed to seal a second week near the 2022 yearly open, with analysts already hoping for a breakout to $50,000 or even beyond. At the time of writing, however, there was still no sign of such an outcome, while Bitcoin stuck to an increasingly narrow low-timeframe trading range. "Bitcoin …

As rising inflation threatens to eat up further the purchasing power of the global fiat ecosystem, finding the perfect hedge against a falling economy has become the need of the hour — especially for the general public across the world. Joining this discussion online, Tesla CEO Elon Musk asked publicly about the probable inflation rate over the next few years to gauge the notion of global investors. Sharing his thoughts on the matter, American billionaire and MicroStrategy CEO Michael J. Saylor opined that with rising inflation, he expects the capital cash flow will move away from traditional fiat into scarce …

Shiba Inu (SHIB) is now the 13th-largest cryptocurrency with its market valuation sitting near $18 billion, right behind its rival meme-cryptocurrency Dogecoin (DOGE), worth roughly $20 billion. But despite falling behind in ranks, SHIB's price has outperformed DOGE in 2022. February has seen a sharp recovery for the SHIB/DOGE pair, in particular, rising by over 38% month-to-date (MTD). As a result, Shiba Inu gained more than 50% MTD against the dollar versus Dogecoin's 11%, as shown in the chart below. Most of the February's — and, in fact, 2022's — gains in the SHIB market surfaced on two dates: Feb. …

Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker Tesla was holding about $2 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) by the end of 2021, according to official records. The “fair market value” of BTC held by Tesla as of Dec. 31, 2021, was $1.99 billion, the company said on Friday in its annual filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing reads that Tesla sold a portion of its BTC holdings in March 2021, with realized gains of $128 million. The company previously announced a historic $1.5 billion BTC purchase last February. According to the filing, Tesla recorded $101 million of …

Erratic billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has offered to eat a kids meal from McDonald’s live on television if the fast food giant adds Dogecoin (DOGE) as an official payment method. “I will eat a Happy Meal on TV if McDonald’s accepts Dogecoin” said the SpaceX CEO in a tweet on Tuesday morning. In the minutes following Musk’s tweet, the price of DOGE immediately jumped 7% from $0.135 to $0.145 where it remains at the time of writing Previous tweets from Musk have seen markets move far more substantially, with a recent announcement about using it for Tesla merchandise …

BitPay Inc., one of the world's most well-known crypto payment processors, has seen a shift in the type of digital assets used for purchases over the last year, according to a Bloomberg report. According to Bitpay, Bitcoin's (BTC) usage at businesses that use its payment system fell last year to about 65% of processed transactions, down from 92% in 2020. Along with this change, Ether (ETH) represented 15% of all transactions, whereas other currencies like Litecoin (LTC) and Dash (DASH) have increased their portion. Businesses have started using stablecoins more frequently for cross-border payments since November when crypto values had …

Dogecoin (DOGE) prices rose substantially Friday as Elon Musk announced that Tesla would start accepting it as payments for merchandise. Tesla merch buyable with Dogecoin — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 14, 2022 After the announcement, DOGE price jumped nearly 13%, hitting a 30-day high a $0.2150. Its upside move came as a part of a larger intraday rally that was taking place already before Musk's Dogecoin tweet went viral. The DOGE price went up by over 25% on Friday before correcting lower to $0.1986 on profit-taking. Better than Bitcoin Tesla's integration of a DOGE payment option on its online shopping …

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that Tesla now accepts Dogecoin (DOGE) as payment for the company’s merchandise. DOGE-eligible products in the Tesla store can be purchased by sending DOGE to Tesla’s Dogecoin wallet. While it's accepting DOGE, the firm also clarified that they are not taking any other crypto. The company states that it cannot detect other assets but DOGE on its website. The business tells customers that "non-Dogecoin digital assets sent to Tesla will not be returned to the purchaser." Additionally, items purchased with DOGE “cannot be returned, exchanged or canceled.” Tesla considers all sales made through DOGE as …

Another year has come and gone in the cryptocurrency industry, leaving behind an ocean of developments, drama, price swings and innovation — all moving at a breakneck pace that even Barry Allen would have a hard time keeping up with. Similar to previous years, Twitter has yet again served as a hotbed of crypto industry discussion in 2021. Over the past 12 months, Bitcoin (BTC) rode a price rollercoaster, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) sold for millions of dollars and Dogecoin (DOGE) reached illogical price highs — and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Twitter, of course, sat right in the …

2021 was a breakout year for the cryptocurrency market in many respects and most investors are absolutely thrilled that Bitcoin (BTC) price established a new all-time high of $68,789. In the same timeframe, Ether (ETH) went on a parabolic rally which saw its price gain 565% from Jan. 1 to hit a record high at $4,859 on Nov. 10. While it was a banner year for large cap cryptocurrencies, some of the biggest gains and most impactful developments came from the altcoin market where decentralized finance (DeFi) and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) rallied by thousands of percent and helped to usher …