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Billy Markus, who created the original meme cryptocurrency, Dogecoin, in collaboration with Jackson Palmer in 2013, published a DOGE-themed article. It was his response to Elon Musk‘s recent article regarding the content creators post on social media platform X.
On December 29, tech mogul Musk addressed the global community of X users, asking them to post “a little more positive, beautiful or informative content” to his global “digital town square.”
Markus was among those who took Musk’s request as a guide, and today he released a Dogecoin mascot.
Elon Musk changes X’s name and adds PEPE crypto avatar
Meanwhile, Elon Musk made waves across X by changing his avatar to one associated with the Pepe the Frog meme, which inspired the creation of the PEPE meme coin in April last year by a group of anonymous developers .
Additionally, the tech billionaire changed his name X to Kekius Maximus, which immediately gave impetus to the creation of a new coin: KEKIUS. Over the past day, Musk has been tweeting from his account under the new name. Among these posts was Pepe the Frog dressed as a Roman general. His post stated that Kekius Maxiumus would “reach level 80 in hardcore PoE soon,” referring to the online game Path of Exile.
The price of PEPE jumped around 12% following this news in just two hours, printing two incredibly long green candles on the chart. The PEPE community also reacted enthusiastically to this, including the official PEPE X account.
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Cardano founder comments on Musk’s new name “Kek”
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson commented on this move by Elon Musk with the name and avatar.
Billionaire and mathematician Charles Hoskinson, co-founder of Ethereum and creator of Cardano, tweeted that the media will likely have difficulty explaining the concept of Kek (Kekius Maximus) to “norms”. Besides all the multiple layers, there’s definitely a crypto reference in Musk’s new Not to mention Wojack and the Red Pill.