Elon Musk, the chief executive of SpaceX, recently agreed with the suggestion that a human colony on Mars would rely on a cryptocurrency just a week after helping raise the price of dogecoin, the Independent reports.
Musk tweeted “yes,” to a user who suggested Marscoin, the cryptocurrency project that began in 2014 but has fallen in value since 2017, in a thread started by artificial intelligence researcher Lex Fridman, who had tweeted that a “Mars economy will run on crypto.”
Last week, Musk changed his Twitter bio to read, “Former CEO of Dogecoin,” a cryptocurrency that started as a joke but gained popularity. He also tweeted, “One word: Doge.”
The cryptocurrency’s price jumped more than a third following Musk’s Twitter actions.
Musk has previously stated that the goal of SpaceX is to send humans to Mars by 2024, and that they eventually hope to establish a “self-sustaining city on Mars as soon as possible.”
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