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Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk fondly recalled his infamous decision to briefly swap the Twitter logo for the Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) meme, a move that triggered a significant surge in the meme coin’s value.

The whole thing was literally a joke. The department name is a reference to a throwback internet meme based on a picture of a Shiba Inu dog, “Doge,” which served as inspiration for Musk’s favorite cryptocurrency token. That was also created as a joke.

Elon Musk's social media platform X faced a major outage. Thousands of users reported issues. The outage impacted users in the US, Germany, and other countries. Downdetector tracked the problems. X has now been largely restored.

The DOGE meme coin, launched as a hat tip to the eponymous department that the billionaire tycoon Elon Musk is the de facto head of, was trading at $0.03875 at the time of writing. Note that the ...

What Elon Musk’s retreat from Washington means ... than at any other point of his tenure.) But the DOGE era might not end just because the meme fades away. While those enterprises could lose ...