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Following Elon Musk’s tweet, meme cryptocurrency Floki Inu is up 45%

  • Elon Musk tweeted his dog’s picture referring him as the CEO of the Twitter.
  • As a result, Meme Floki Inu increased their 45% value.
  • Floki Inu is trading at $0.081; to $0.087, gaining 7.14% in only a few hours.

 

A well-known meme cryptocurrency called Floki Inu increased by 45% on Wednesday after Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted a meme of his dog Floki as the new Twitter head. According to statistics from CoinMarketCap, the cryptocurrency was valued at $0.000022 at 8:45 AM and had rocketed to $0.000033 by 9:30 AM on February 15.

In the image Elon Musk posted as a tweet, his beloved dog is shown sitting on a chair, sporting a black t-shirt bearing the CEO’s logo, and surrounded by business documents and a laptop. “Much better than any other person,” Musk says of his pet. However, it needs to be clarified if he refers to himself or the late CEO, Parag Agarwal.

Moreover, according to data from CoinGecko, Floki, named after Musk’s Shiba Inu dog, has increased by 41% over the past day.
After the Floki Inu DAO, the organisation that created the coin, passed a governance resolution to carry out a $100 million token burn, the price of Floki jumped by about 100% in January.

Meanwhile, in case of other meme-based currencies, a similar rise was also seen. Elon Musk’s favorite cryptocurrency, trading at $0.081, surged to $0.087 and gained 7.14% in only a few hours.

CoinMarketCap shows that at 10:30 AM, Dogecoin was trading at $0.086. Following Musk’s tweets on Wednesday, Shiba Inu, another dog-themed meme coin, also saw a rise. The cryptocurrency price increased by almost 5% from $0.0000122 to $0.0000128 over this period.

Posted Date: July 8, 2023