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Dogecoin jumps as Musk says Tesla to accept crypto as payment

Elon Musk has long been a proponent of the memecoin

Prices of cryptocurrency dogecoin were rising sharply early on 14 December after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet that the electric-vehicle company would “make some merch buyable with Doge & see how it goes.”

Dogecoin was rising 15.4% to $0.190497 on 14 December.

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