Dogecoin’s price jumped 35% after Elon Musk’s late-night Twitter poll

• Dogecoin jumped as much as 35% in 24 hours as Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted about the cryptocurrency.
• The cryptocurrency’s price later dropped again before climbing back to about 25% gains.
• Year-to-date returns on the meme-based cryptocurrency were about 1,032.91%, according to CoinDesk. 
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Elon Musk, chief executive at Tesla and SpaceX, drove the price of Dogecoin cryptocurrency by as much as 35% higher with a series of tweets late Saturday. 

The digital currency hit an all-time high of $0.065448, up about 35% from its 24-hour low of $0.048356, according to CoinDesk. The cryptocurrency’s price later dropped again before climbing back to about 25% gains.

Year-to-date returns on the cryptocurrency were about 1,032.91%, the site said. The cryptocurrency had a market capitalization of about $7.81 billion early Sunday. 

Musk on Saturday night posted a Twitter poll, asking his 45.8 million followers to choose “the future currency of Earth.”

He gave two options: “Dogecoin to the Moooonn” or “All other crypto combined.” 

The poll resulted in 71.3% of the 2.4 million voters saying that “Dogecoin to the Moooonn” would be the future of currency. 

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Last week, Musk sent the coin up 59% with another series of tweets, where he called Dogecoin “the people’s crypto.”  He’s also boosted bitcoin, and has been a vocal supporter of the Reddit group Wall Street Bets. Dogecoin has benefited from the mania driven by that group.  

Just before midnight in California, Musk added another tweet, building off a meme he’d posted last week. On February 4, he posted a drawing ripped from “The Lion King,” with himself as Rafiki, the cartoon monkey, holding up a baby — Simba in the movie, but the Dogecoin dog in Musk’s version.

—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2021

On Saturday, he added two other monkeys to the scene.  They had the heads of Gene Simmons, from the band Kiss, and Snoop Dogg. 

Musk said, “So … it’s finally come to this …”