{"id":82985,"date":"2022-10-28T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=82985"},"modified":"2022-10-28T02:47:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T06:47:10","slug":"dogecoin-surges-35-as-elon-musks-twitter-deal-approaches-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2022\/dogecoin-surges-35-as-elon-musks-twitter-deal-approaches-close.html","title":{"rendered":"Dogecoin surges 35% as Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter deal approaches close"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/DOGE.CM=\/\">Dogecoin<\/a>, the cryptocurrency branded after a viral dog meme from 2013, is up 35% since Monday as Elon Musk\u2019s deal to buy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/TWTR\/\">Twitter<\/a> approaches a close. The price of the token often moves in lockstep with comments made by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/TSLA\/\">Tesla<\/a> CEO. Doge is up 10% in the last 24 hours after the SpaceX chief changed his Twitter bio to \u201cChief of Twit\u201d on Wednesday. Similarly, the meme token saw a price surge in April when Musk first floated the idea of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/04\/10\/elon-musk-on-changes-to-twitter-blue-says-dogecoin-should-be-accepted.html\">adding dogecoin as a payment method<\/a> for Twitter\u2019s subscription service, Blue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/10\/27\/dogecoin-surges-40percent-as-elon-musks-twitter-deal-approaches-close.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency branded after a viral dog meme from 2013, is up 35% since Monday as Elon Musk\u2019s deal to buy Twitter approaches a close. The price of the token often moves in lockstep with comments made by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82986,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82985\/revisions\/82986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}