Elon Musk \u2013 the South African entrepreneur behind majorly successful companies like electric car firm Tesla and SpaceX \u2013 is back in the news promoting his favorite cryptocurrency Dogecoin. While the man has consistently made a name for himself in the world of bitcoin and went as far as to purchase $1.5 billion worth of the world\u2019s number one digital asset by market cap in recent months, Musk is again reverting his attention back to the joke cryptocurrency with a cute little Shiba Inu dog as its mascot.<\/p>\n
In a recent tweet, Musk commented that he was going to send a Dogecoin to the \u201cliteral moon,\u201d meaning he was going to take one of his SpaceX rockets and fly a literal Doge to the heavenly body and leave it there. Naturally, everyone felt it may have been an April Fool\u2019s joke considering the day the tweet emerged on the internet, but for those of us who know Musk and his crypto antics on a stronger level, we can\u2019t help but feel like this is something he really wants to do.<\/p>\n
Of course, accomplishing such a feat would be a rather difficult thing to achieve. The first major problem with this scenario is that Dogecoin is a digital currency, hence it does not exist in physical form \u2013 only in binary numbers and code. Unless Musk means he\u2019s planning to buy Doge and print it out on a paper wallet, then fly the paper wallet to the moon and leave it there, it\u2019s unlikely he\u2019ll ever be able to leave a Dogecoin on the lunar surface of Earth\u2019s closest neighbor.<\/p>\n
Then again, who knows what could happen in a couple of years? As cryptocurrencies become more mainstream and legitimate, maybe someone somewhere will find a way of duplicating all these currencies and creating physical forms for all of them \u2013 bitcoin, Ethereum, etc. From there, we can trade these assets and use them the way we would paper money.<\/p>\n
The Twitter message read:<\/p>\n
\nSpaceX is going to put a literal dogecoin on the literal moon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n