Earlier as we speak, Twitter chief Elon Musk, who purchased it for roughly $44 billion in October final 12 months, issued a tweet that bought his followers to smile, because it clearly appeared to be a joke.

Nevertheless, it turned out that the lead developer of Shiba Inu, Shytoshi Kusama, had briefly added the identical image to his Twitter bio a 12 months in the past.

Elon Musk and Kusama tweeted identical image

The boss of Tesla, Twitter and some different revolutionary firms ceaselessly put up humorous issues like memes on his Twitter deal with. Nevertheless, this time his tweet comprises the one image, which is a dot.

💜.

— Polygon (@0xPolygon) February 8, 2023

These two phrases have been the premise for replies from his followers, together with crypto leaders like DOGE co-founder Billy Markus and HEX founder Richard Coronary heart. The remark thread was filled with sarcastic and joking responses, however no person actually understood if the billionaire innovator truly meant something by his mysterious “message.”

Richard Coronary heart assumed that that is what the Earth seems to be like as seen from Mars — the planet Musk needs humanity to achieve to arrange a self-sustained colony there.

Curiously, the lead developer of Shiba Inu token, Shytoshi Kusama, was noticed including this “dot” to his Twitter bio final December. Twitter consumer KURO SHIBARMY JPN (@kuro_9696_9696) shared a screenshot that proves it.

The dot tweeted by Musk is probably a joke, as he usually likes to have interaction along with his followers utilizing light-hearted themes, or he could possibly be making some form of a test associated to consumer engagement on Twitter.

.@ShytoshiKusama‘s Twitter profile from final December.
(Screenshot from @theshibdream)#SHIB https://t.co/CNikYwby1o pic.twitter.com/bsAvZwWfHG

— KURO🐾SHIBARMY JPN🇯🇵 (@kuro_9696_9696) February 8, 2023

DOGE appears extra necessary than Bitcoin for Tesla and Musk

“DogeDesigner” Twitter account (@cb_doge) has reminded the crypto group that two years in the past, Tesla bought a staggering $1.5 billion within the flagship cryptocurrency — Bitcoin.

Two years in the past on today, Tesla purchased $1.5 billion price of #Bitcoin @elonmusk

As we speak, Tesla accepts just one cryptocurrency i.e Dogecoin. pic.twitter.com/F5ZPYfa8Bm

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) February 8, 2023

This transfer of the main electrical automotive producer pushed BTC to a brand new value peak in April. Together with that, many different cash additionally hit new all-time highs, together with Musk’s beloved Dogecoin. After that, BTC jumped to a brand new ATH in November 2021, hitting near $69,000.

On the time of this writing, Bitcoin is exchanging fingers at $23,056, which is 66.39% beneath the November 2021 all-time excessive.

Tesla, nonetheless, ultimately dropped practically all of its Bitcoin holdings. It occurred in late July 2022 when it transformed 75% of its BTC into fiat price $936 million.

In January this 12 months, Tesla reported $34 million of impairment costs on its BTC purchases. At present, the corporate holds 9,720 Bitcoin.

“DogeDesigner” careworn that regardless of the large Bitcoin buy prior to now (and Tesla first accepted BTC for its electrical automobiles), the one crypto it accepts now could be the unique meme coin, DOGE.

Tesla has built-in DOGE funds for its merchandise in early 2022, first as an experiment after which on a everlasting foundation. SpaceX adopted go well with later that 12 months.