Zuckerberg Names His Goats Max and Bitcoin

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shared a photo of two goats named Max and Bitcoin. Social media users saw a hidden message in it.

In the comments they noted that after the post was published, the price of Bitcoin fell by about $5,000.

Paradigm investor Arjun Balaji suggested that, in this way, the Facebook founder is signaling a secret cipher.

Refuse to believe that Zuck’s post doesn’t contain some strategic, coded message. This a dude who beat Civ V on deity mode while running Facebook.

— Arjun Balaji (@arjunblj) May 10, 2021

“I refuse to believe that Zuckerberg’s post doesn’t contain some strategic, encoded message,” he wrote.

Economist Alex Krüger believes that the photo of the goats is a good excuse for yet another pump of the premier cryptocurrency:

If we rallied on Elon using bitcoin in his bio, we surely have to rally on Zuck naming his goats Max and Bitcoin.

— Alex Krüger (@krugermacro) May 10, 2021

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 “Max” and “Bitcoin”,

Analyst Steven Zheng noted that the Facebook founder now technically has Bitcoin.

More precisely Zuck’s a BITCOIN MAXimalist

— Petr Misan (@petrmisan) May 11, 2021

“I would even say that he is a Bitcoin maximalist,” one of the commentators added.

Some expressed concerns about Bitcoin’s fate, citing the 2011 incident. At that time Mark Zuckerberg dined with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and the goat he personally killed was served at the table.

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’s hands.

Facebook-backed project Diem (formerly Libra) intents to launch in 2021 a pilot of a digital currency linked to the US dollar. Due to global regulatory concerns, the timeline for the initiative has been pushed back several times.

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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.

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