SpaceX accepts dogecoin as payment to launch lunar mission next year
- Elon Musk tweeted on Monday that SpaceX will launch the Doge-1 satellite to the moon next year
- Dogecoin lost more than a third after musk called it a ‘hustle’ during his appearance on Saturday Night Live
SpaceX will launch the “DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon” in the first quarter of next year, with Elon Musk’s commercial rocket company accepting the meme-inspired cryptocurrency dogecoin as payment.
“SpaceX launching satellite Doge-1 to the moon next year – Mission paid for in Doge – 1st cryptocurrency in space – 1st meme in space”, Musk said in a tweet.
Geometric Energy Corporation announced the dogecoin-funded mission earlier on Sunday, with the statement not disclosing the mission’s financial value.
“This mission will demonstrate the application of cryptocurrency beyond Earth orbit and set the foundation for interplanetary commerce”, SpaceX Vice-President of Commercial Sales Tom Ochinero was quoted as saying in the statement released by Geometric Energy.
Musk said on Twitter in April that SpaceX was going to put a “literal Dogecoin on the literal moon”.
Dogecoin lost more than a third of its price on Sunday, after Musk called it a ‘hustle’ during his guest-host spot on the “Saturday Night Live” comedy sketch TV show.
