{"id":57699,"date":"2022-02-14T16:38:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T14:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=57699"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:01:31","slug":"elon-musk-responds-to-idea-of-selling-spacex-and-starlink-merch-for-dogecoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/elon-musk-responds-to-idea-of-selling-spacex-and-starlink-merch-for-dogecoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk responds to idea of selling SpaceX and Starlink merch for Dogecoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 14, one Twitter user, in response to Elon Musk&#8217;s post, asked whether SpaceX and Starlink merch stores could accept Dogecoin as payment. The entrepreneur replied with a winking emoji.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1493012935102316551?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Starlink is a satellite internet service that provides broadband access in hard-to-reach places without ground-based communications infrastructure. Spacecraft are launched into orbit by SpaceX rockets.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours before that tweet, the entrepreneur posted the equally cryptic sweat-droplets emoji under a McDonald\u2019s teaser with the caption: &#8220;Something&#8217;s coming&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udca6<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1492800931762946050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In May 2021, the billionaire ran a Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-weighs-up-selling-tesla-for-dogecoin\">poll<\/a> with almost 400,000 followers about whether Tesla should accept meme cryptocurrency as payment. At that time the company <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-says-tesla-has-begun-selling-electric-cars-for-bitcoin\">was selling electric cars for Bitcoin<\/a>, but soon <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tesla-halts-bitcoin-car-sales-and-roils-the-market\">abandoned this option<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2022, Tesla <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-says-tesla-begins-selling-merchandise-for-dogecoin\">began offering<\/a> certain goods for Dogecoin.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier the entrepreneur <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/spacex-to-launch-doge-1-satellite-to-the-moon-mission-paid-for-in-dogecoin\">announced the launch of SpaceX&#8217;s Doge-1 satellite<\/a> in 2022. He said the mission was fully paid for with meme cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 14, one Twitter user, in response to Elon Musk&#8217;s post, asked whether SpaceX and Starlink merch stores could accept Dogecoin as payment. 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