Another Elon Musk company may start accepting Dogecoin
Centibillionaire Elon Musk has hinted that satellite internet provider Starlink could start accepting Dogecoin, the largest meme coin.
The quirky entrepreneur responded with the blinking face emoji to such a request from the community.
Starlink aims to offer high-speed broadband internet to customers in the most remote corners of the planet. The company now has roughly 2,000 functional satellites after performing dozens of launches. The service costs $99 per month on top of paying $499 for the hardware kit.
Musk’s SpaceX could also enable Dogecoin payments. As reported by U.Today, the space exploration company has already accepted DOGE for a lunar mission called DOGE-1 which is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2022.
As reported by U.Today, e-car manufacturer Tesla started allowing buying some of its merchandise with Dogecoin, pushing the price of the cryptocurrency significantly higher. Musk initially announced the plan in December.
Last March, Tesla enabled bitcoin payments, but then halted them 49 years later due to environmental concerns.
Musk also nudged McDonald’s to accept Dogecoin in late January, but that apparently didn’t work out, with the fast-food giant laughing the initiative off.
Dogecoin returns to the top 10
Meanwhile, Dogecoin has returned to the top 10 largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, according to data from CoinMarketCap.
The meme coin is slightly in the green over the past 24 hours together with rival Shiba Inu.
Polkadot (DOT) and Avalanche (AVAX) are among the biggest laggards, dropping more than 5%.
