But wait, there’s more: the flamethrower is sentient, its safe word is “cryptocurrency” and it comes with a free blockchain
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 29, 2018
ur welcome pic.twitter.com/e2KF57KLxb
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 4, 2021
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Have you ever had a partner who was no good for you? Your parents, your friends, even the voice in your head told you to split up, but before you knew it, you were married with three kids.
For Tesla CEO Elon Musk, that partner is Twitter. The SEC warns him off of tweeting things that can move the market, and what does he do? He goes and buys a 9% stake in the company—and joins the board to boot.
The latest concern is that Musk's appointment could revitalize scrutiny of the automobile kingpin from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is tasked with protecting consumers from things like market manipulation. While the agency has fined Musk for tweets it regards as ill-timed and/or misleading related to Tesla, the South African has also been known to inflate crypto market prices in under 140 characters.
Musk first started tweeting about cryptocurrency in January 2018 with Musk-founded The Boring Company's release of flamethrowers (not a typo):
But wait, there’s more: the flamethrower is sentient, its safe word is “cryptocurrency” and it comes with a free blockchain
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 29, 2018
From February 2018 through at least February 2019, Musk publicly maintained via Twitter that he owned no cryptocurrency aside from 0.25 BTC that a friend had sent to him.
But in April of that year, something shifted as Musk declared (jokingly or not), "Dogecoin might be my fav cryptocurrency. It's pretty cool." What followed was a years-long love affair with the joke coin, based on a meme involving a Shiba Inu dog. Decrypt has previously reported that Dogecoin searches spiked from 2019 through 2020 around the times Musk tweeted about the coin.
On December 20, 2020, Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared an eloquent and urgent message with his Twitter followers. “One word: DOGE.” That word captivated a nation, nay, an entire world. The masses rushed to their keyboards, eager to know more about this coin called Doge. One word: Doge — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 20, 2020 Search volumes for Dogecoin—created as an alternative payment system to banks or Bitcoin in 2013—rose to a record high by the week of January 3-9. After riding a bull market,...
There's also general agreement that Musk's tweets—including "Dogecoin is the people's crypto" and a photoshopped allusion to "The Lion King" in which he anoints DOGE—helped push Dogecoin's price upward from under a penny in January 2021 to an all-time high of $0.73 on the day of his May 2021 "Saturday Night Live" appearance.
ur welcome pic.twitter.com/e2KF57KLxb
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 4, 2021
Musk's DOGE involvement goes beyond shitposting. He's actually been working with part-time Dogecoin developers to improve the blockchain since 2019. In May 2021, he tweeted that the immediate goal was to "improve system transaction efficiency," adding that the work was "potentially promising."
While Bitcoin was frequently the butt of Musk's jokes (he called it "almost as BS as fiat money" in December 2020) he made something of an about face in February 2021, when Tesla announced it had $1.5 billion in BTC in its treasury. At the time, several lawyers told Decrypt that Musk's Twitter habit likely didn't cross a legal line, at least with regards to cryptocurrency.
Nonetheless, said Anderson Kill partner Preston Byrne, “CEOs of companies with substantial Bitcoin holdings will need to be very careful before talking their Bitcoin books in a fashion that might move the markets to ensure their statements are not part of anything which might be viewed as a manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance in the context of either the commodity or securities domains.”
How big is Twitter's verified NFT feature for the future of NFTs? Decrypt's Dan Roberts, Andrew Hayward, Jason Nelson, and contributor Kate Irwin break it down. Join live to ask questions and post your comments.
Musk has rarely been categorized as "careful," however. In 2018, the agency argued that a series of tweets about taking Tesla private constituted securities fraud and mandated he step down as Tesla chairman; less than a week later, he called it the Shortseller Enrichment Commission on Twitter. In July 2020, he tweeted, in an ostensible reference to his genitalia that SEC stood for something else: "SEC, three letter acronym, middle word is Elon's."
Enjoy the honeymoon.
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On Thursday, Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings reported a staggering $533 million net loss for the first quarter this year, despite amassing Bitcoin at a record pace and steadily growing its year-over-year revenue. The company's Q1 earnings reported a 30% jump in revenue to $214 million, with its Bitcoin holdings ballooning to 47,531 BTC, a 174% increase from just 17,320 BTC a year ago. Still, the company's results missed Wall Street’s expectations. Its net income loss expanded to $533 million (at $1....
Coinbase's total revenues fell 10% quarter-over-quarter and fell short of analyst expectations amid a decline in trading activity, the company said in its first quarter earnings for 2025. The crypto exchange booked $2 billion in total revenue on Thursday, below Wall Street analysts' estimates of $2.12 billion. Net income came in at $66 million, marking a 94% decrease from the fourth quarter of 2024. The company’s earnings per share shrank to $0.26 from $4.84 the previous year for the same thre...