On April 29, US time, Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Elon Musk) released a tweet with only one word: Ethereum (Ethereum).
This is not the first time Musk mentioned Ethereum. As early as July 2018, Musk complained about the proliferation of Ethereum robot accounts.
In April of this year, Musk praised "Dogecoin" (Dogecoin): "It's so cool, Dogecoin may be my favorite cryptocurrency." And changed the account profile from "Dogecoin Former CEO" .
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musk call
Musk "shouted orders" on Twitter again. He uttered a word: Ethereum. The blockchain media CCN stated that shortly after Musk tweeted, the price of ETH reversed its decline and rebounded.
At this time, it has been less than a month since Musk last called for Dogecoin.
On April 3, Musk praised "Dogecoin" (Dogecoin): "It's so cool, Dogecoin may be my favorite cryptocurrency." And changed the account profile from "Dogecoin Former CEO ". At the same time, the price of Dogecoin rose from 0.019 yuan to 0.025 yuan in an instant, an increase of more than 31%.
Shoutout is a foreign exchange term, but in the world of blockchain, the meaning of shoutout becomes simple and direct. It can be understood as an influential person posting good news or opinions on a certain cryptocurrency on a social platform. to increase the currency price.
But unlike the shout list that everyone understands, Musk’s change of account seems to be related to a previous vote initiated by Dogecoin on Twitter. The vote was about electing a CEO for Dogecoin. In the end, Musk was elected with 49% of the votes, surpassing Metal Wallet CEO Marshall, Ethereum founder V God and others. Someone told Musk: "You can't refuse."
Shortly after being recognized as calling for a single Ethereum, Musk left a message "jk" under the tweet, which seemed to mean joke (joke).
Regardless of whether Musk is suspected of shouting orders, it is undeniable that Musk is the focus of the blockchain world. So far, this one-word tweet has received 4,600 comments, 8,700 retweets, and 100,000 likes. It is an unmatched influence among blockchain "big shots" and KOLs. He has more than 26.2 million followers on Twitter.
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real iron man
Most people's impression of Musk may stay on February 7, 2018. Accompanied by David Bowie's "Space Oddity", Space X's "Falcon Heavy" rocket slowly slid in with a cherry red Tesla sports car Roadster In space, Musk is known as the man who rewrote history.
Fans' impression of Musk is that while popularizing clean energy on the earth, he plans to colonize Mars while digging pipelines underground in the United States. One Reddit user described Musk as "who would be on par with greats like Edison and Ford, and at the same time the closest thing to a real Tony Stark".
According to autobiographers, Musk is a new symbol of American innovation and technological strength after the economic crisis. He is called "the next Jobs" and is the real version of Iron Man.
Elon Musk in the public information, known as "Iron Man", the founder of X.com, the predecessor of Paypal, held $165 million in cash at the age of 31, and is now the head of SpaceX and Tesla.
In fact, whether it is in the traditional technology circle or the blockchain world, it is rare to see an entrepreneur like Musk who explores the unknown and insists on himself, and no one else can compare with Musk, who understands fans, the public and himself Psychology, know how to tease.
While curious about Musk's god-like influence, more and more people have discovered that it was Musk's words that stirred up a pool of small splashes in the ordinary bear market. People's biggest confusion comes from what kind of existence is Musk in the blockchain world?
We can't get more comments from Musk, but maybe we can get in from another angle, that is Musk's past experience and remarks.
In fact, calling out orders is not an unfamiliar word for Musk. Before calling out Dogecoin and Ethereum, Musk was more used to "calling out orders" to Tesla, a listed company he operates, on Twitter.
God knows how much Musk loves Twitter. "Some people like to express themselves with their hair, and I like to use Twitter," he said.
"My tweets are my real thoughts, not those well-written corporate PR drafts, which are all trite propaganda methods." Musk said on Twitter.
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$20 million penalty
On August 7, 2018, US time, Musk woke up at home in Los Angeles, did some exercise, and drove a Tesla Model S to the airport. The company is privatized.
He didn't discuss it with the board or even with anyone before releasing the news, and the price of $420 per share was not calculated.
It was during the stock trading hours that Tesla’s share price soared, rising 7% in a single day, short sellers were defeated, and the potential loss was once as high as 800 million U.S. dollars.
Musk was accused of manipulating stock prices, and the SEC immediately launched an investigation.
Three months later, the U.S. SEC announced that Musk would no longer serve as the chairman of Tesla due to public dissemination of false and misleading statements and suspected of securities fraud. SK and Tesla each paid $20 million in fines.
This is not the first time Musk has called for an order. On April Fool's Day in 2018, Musk joked on Twitter that Tesla was bankrupt, which stimulated the company's share price to fall by 7% that day.
After Tesla's privatization incident, the company set up an organization called the "Information Disclosure Committee" in accordance with the penalty clauses. Review your tweets before.
On February 19 this year, Musk tweeted: "Tesla built 0 cars in 2011, and will build about 500,000 cars in 2019." He is quite proud of his achievements in the past 8 years. However, the figure of "500,000" does not match Tesla's expected "up to 400,000 units" released in its earnings report on January 30. The SEC then decided to file charges with the court after multiple rounds of email inquiries to Tesla, accusing Musk of contempt of court.
On April 28, Musk and the SEC reached an agreement on Musk’s use of Twitter (to publish information about Tesla’s production, sales and privatization). The agreement specifically stipulates that if Musk wants to publish communication information about Tesla in the future , must be pre-approved by your own attorney.
This means that if Musk wants to release information about Tesla in the future, he must submit it to a lawyer for approval. In the securities market, Musk’s right to speak is displayed, but in the free world of the blockchain, Musk’s calls are not allowed. discouraged, even encouraged.
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Only 0.25 BTC
Musk's attitude towards cryptocurrencies is ambiguous.
"Except for the 0.25 bitcoin that a friend gave me many years ago, I don't have a single cryptocurrency in my hand." Musk said early last year.
On the other hand, he is getting closer to cryptocurrencies again.
In May last year, Musk said on Twitter: "Then send encrypted candies." Ironically, Buffett does not understand virtual currency and only knows to eat sugar, but all this has nothing to do with virtual currency.
In February of this year, Musk said in an interview with the ARK Invest blog that cryptocurrencies are much better than banknotes in terms of transmitting value. The architectural design of Bitcoin is very clever, but on the other hand, the creation process of cryptocurrencies consumes too much energy.
disclosediscloseBlockchains LLC, a blockchain technology company in Nevada, USA, announced that it will cooperate with Tesla CEO Musk to jointly build a pilot smart city project in Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center (TRIC), the largest industrial park in the United States, based on Ethereum .
Foreign media once reported that Gupta, a former intern at SpaceX, claimed that Musk is Satoshi Nakamoto, the founder of Bitcoin.
The intern argued that Bitcoin was written by someone fluent in C++, a language Musk uses heavily at SpaceX. Musk's 2013 "Hyperloop" paper showed that he has a deep understanding of both cryptography and economics.
Later, Musk personally clarified that the report that "Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto is Musk" was false.
"Are you Satoshi Nakamoto?" On Twitter, a netizen named Ikir asked Musk, and Musk never replied. The netizen immediately proved himself: "He is, because he has been challenging himself."
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