Elon Musk Jokes About ‘Regretamine’ Drug, Sparks Gags About Dogecoin
A tweet by Elon Musk a few “new drug coming known as Regretamine” has sparked a flurry of memes associated to Dogecoin on social media, together with one from the Tesla CEO himself.
The joke cryptocurrency has seen a surge of curiosity following the current GameStop inventory shopping for frenzy in addition to following earlier Dogecoin-related tweets from Musk.
On March 1, Musk tweeted: “New drug popping out known as Regretamine. Pop one & all regrets are gone.”
Musk then wrote in a subsequent tweet: “Doge meme defend (legendary merchandise).” His newest submit was shared with a cartoon depicting an individual in military gear showing to defend a toddler sleeping on a mattress labeled “Dogecoin” from a rainfall of “Dogecoin worth dropping.”
Musk’s newest tweets have every obtained over 200,000 likes and greater than 20,000 retweets, together with a number of replies with Dogecoin-themed memes.
Consumer @MattWallace888 tweeted: “Anybody who sells Dogecoin too early goes to want a boatload of Regretamine in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later in an effort to cease regretting it.”
The submit was shared with a meme of Musk in addition to rapper Snoop Dogg and Gene Simmons from the band Kiss—each of whom have beforehand tweeted about Dogecoin—driving a shifting prepare titled “Hop on the prepare.”
Consumer @itsALLrisky tweeted: “The one drug value taking: The #DogePill,” sharing a cartoon depiction of two palms holding a bottle of “arduous to swallow drugs.” The underside half of the cartoon stated “sometime, your nanna will purchase groceries with Dogecoin,” exhibiting a pair of palms holding a number of Dogecoins.
Consumer @DogeArmyMajor tweeted: “I have been Doge pilled,” posting a picture of 1 hand holding a Bitcoin, with the opposite hand holding a number of Dogecoins.
On Tuesday, the worth of Dogecoin (listed as DOGE on the cryptocurrency market) was recorded to be at $0.050659 USD, with a 24-hour buying and selling quantity of $1,537,714,102 USD. Its newest worth marked a 1.09 p.c rise within the final 24 hours, on the time of reporting, in response to CoinMarketCap.
On Sunday, the builders for Dogecoin launched the cryptocurrency’s first vital replace since July 2019.
The replace included “vital efficiency enhancements” similar to one which “considerably improves the velocity at which a node can add blocks.”
The newest replace additionally decreased “the default time that transactions are cached within the mempool from 336 hours to 24 hours.”
The worth of Dogecoin, which started as a joke when it launched in 2013, soared from late January to early February earlier than declining and stabilizing in current weeks, in response to information from CoinMarketCap.
It beforehand hit document ranges, together with an increase of greater than 800 p.c, reaching round $0.082 at one level.
Dogecoin’s rise got here after the worth of GameStop shares skyrocketed, fueled by investments from customers on the subreddit r/WallStreetBets.
The GameStop worth surge impressed members of the subreddit r/SatoshiStreetBets—which describes itself as “the crypto model of WallStreetBets”—to aim to do the identical for Dogecoin.
In current days, a years-old petition urging Amazon to let clients pay in Dogecoin additionally garnered recent consideration as members of a well-liked Reddit group resurfaced the marketing campaign and urged others to signal.
The petition, titled Doge4Amazon, was launched on Change.org in September 2018 by a person named “Mark E” with the purpose of attracting 25,000 signatures. As of March 2, the petition has obtained over 106,500 signatures.
In early February, Mastercard introduced it’ll “begin supporting choose cryptocurrencies immediately on our community” this 12 months, as it’s “making ready for the way forward for crypto and funds.”
The cardboard firm’s newest transfer would enable clients to settle their funds utilizing cryptocurrencies. This is able to imply clients may pay distributors immediately in cryptocurrency.
Dogecoin’s rise has additionally generated renewed curiosity in different cryptocurrencies, together with Bitcoin, the world’s first and largest cryptocurrency primarily based on market cap worth.
In early February, Tesla introduced it had invested round $1.5 billion in Bitcoin, whereas the worth of Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap worth, surpassed $1,500 for the primary time.
