{"id":42230,"date":"2021-05-11T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=42230"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:17:24","slug":"zuckerberg-names-his-goats-max-and-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/zuckerberg-names-his-goats-max-and-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg Names His Goats Max and Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shared a photo of two goats named Max and Bitcoin. Social media users saw a hidden message in it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fzuck%2Fposts%2F10112954515429031&#038;width=500&#038;show_text=true&#038;height=589&#038;appId\" width=\"500\" height=\"589\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the comments they noted that after the post was published, the price of Bitcoin fell by about $5,000.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphoto%2F%3Ffbid%3D10165427528700078%26set%3Dp.10165427528700078&#038;width=500&#038;show_text=true&#038;height=497&#038;appId\" width=\"500\" height=\"497\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Paradigm investor Arjun Balaji suggested that, in this way, the Facebook founder is signaling a secret cipher.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Refuse to believe that Zuck\u2019s post doesn\u2019t contain some strategic, coded message. This a dude who beat Civ V on deity mode while running Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arjun Balaji (@arjunblj) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arjunblj\/status\/1391892036681408514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I refuse to believe that Zuckerberg&#8217;s post doesn&#8217;t contain some strategic, encoded message,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Economist Alex Kr\u00fcger believes that the photo of the goats is a good excuse for yet another pump of the premier cryptocurrency:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If we rallied on Elon using bitcoin in his bio, we surely have to rally on Zuck naming his goats Max and Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alex Kr\u00fcger (@krugermacro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krugermacro\/status\/1391891130208428033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is very much in the spirit of 2021. If the market rose when Elon tweets about Bitcoin, it should surely rise when Zuck calls the goats &#8220;Max&#8221; and &#8220;Bitcoin&#8221;,<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Analyst Steven Zheng noted that the Facebook founder now technically has Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">More precisely Zuck\u2019s a BITCOIN MAXimalist<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Petr Misan (@petrmisan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petrmisan\/status\/1391909824632328193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I would even say that he is a Bitcoin maximalist,&#8221; one of the commentators added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some expressed concerns about Bitcoin&#8217;s fate, citing the 2011 incident. At that time Mark Zuckerberg dined with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mark-zuckerberg-jack-dorsey-cold-goat-dinner-2019-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the goat he personally killed was served at the table<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2018, Zuckerberg wrote that he was interested in encryption and cryptocurrencies as technologies capable of taking power away from centralized systems and putting it in people&#8217;s hands.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook-backed project Diem (formerly Libra) intents <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/media-diem-to-launch-pilot-stablecoin-by-year-end\">to launch in 2021 a pilot of a digital currency<\/a> linked to the US dollar. Due to global regulatory concerns, the timeline for the initiative has been pushed back several times.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"BNYAfZK0W6\">\n<p>Cryptocurrencies and the Zuckerberg empire: what a Bitcoin-Facebook mix could mean for the world<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cCryptocurrencies and the Zuckerberg empire: what a Bitcoin-Facebook mix could mean for the world\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/exclusive\/kriptovalyuty-i-imperiya-tsukerberga-chem-grozit-miru-miks-bitkoina-i-facebook\/embed#?secret=GPo1gTOQvh#?secret=BNYAfZK0W6\" data-secret=\"BNYAfZK0W6\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At the end of April, Bitcoin investor Alistair Milne spread a rumor that Facebook allegedly bought Bitcoin in the first quarter. However, the information was not confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shared a photo of two goats named Max and Bitcoin. 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