Dogecoin has become the center of attention of famous individuals once again. Mark Cuban said that his NBA team had become the largest DOGE merchant, Elon Musk made an electronic-god reference, while John McAfee used its growing popularity to defend his alleged pump and dump schemes.
McAfee Touted DOGE Before Musk
The love story between the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and the popular meme coin is well-known within the cryptocurrency space. Musk has outlined his support for the asset on multiple occasions.
While some believed that the positive engagements with DOGE came from his trolling nature on social media platforms, Musk has repeatedly found different ways to promote the token. The latest one came on Saturday, as he said that “Doge spelled backwards is Egod.”
His support brought more famous individuals to the scene as well – names such as Snoop Dogg and Gene Simmons. Despite the long-term relationship between Musk and Doge, though, John McAfee recently highlighted that he touted the asset long before Tesla’s CEO.
Much of the new allegations from the Feds are about my “coin of the day”. For a few days in 2017 I chose coins I believed had value.
One of them was Doge – now being touted years later by Elon Musk. The coin has increased well over 1000% since I chose it.
Not a pump and dump.
— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) March 7, 2021
McAfee was indicted days ago from the US DOJ for multiple criminal offenses, including his alleged involvement in pump and dump schemes with his “Coin of the Day” campaign. Several years ago, the former antivirus tycoon promoted small-cap altcoins that he supposedly believed were undervalued, but US authorities claimed that he made more than $13 million from illicit schemes.
McAfee argued that the allegations are “overblown” and that he indeed considered those coins to have immense potential. One of them was Dogecoin, which, in his words, “has increased well over 1,000% since I chose it.” Ultimately, he concluded that this was “not a pump and dump.”
Mavs Are the Biggest DOGE Merchant
Another Doge-related engagement from high-net-worth individuals came from the owner of the Dallas Mavericks – Mark Cuban. The billionaire and his NBA team recently announced that they had started accepting Dogecoin payments for game tickets and merchandise on the online store.
A few days later, Cuban updated the community on the performance of this new initiative. He said that the Mavs had received more than 20,000 DOGE in transactions, making them “the largest Dogecoin merchant in the world.”
Furthermore, the start of the reality TV series Shark Tank predicted that DOGE will “definitely” reach $1. With a current price of $0.056, the asset would need a 1,700% increase to reach that milestone.
The @dallasmavs have done more than 20,000 #Dogecoin in transactions, making us the LARGEST #DOGECOIN MERCHANT IN THE WORLD ! We thank all of you and can only say that if we sell another 6,556,000,000 #DOGECOIN worth of Mavs merch, #dogecoin will DEFINITELY HIT $1 !!!🚀🚀🚀
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) March 6, 2021
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