Why Musk Shifted to DOGECOIN? While Dogecoin’s size is nowhere near Bitcoin, the ‘joke’ currency’s market cap has been catapulted from over $1 billion during early January to $47 billion on Saturday. What started as a satirical alternative to Bitcoin, cryptocurrency Dogecoin has been on fire of late following multiple cryptic tweets by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in the past few weeks indicating his support to the most trending altcoin. The latest one was on Thursday that pushed Dogecoin’s price up by 200 per cent from $0.13 to $0.39 on Saturday. Musk retitled a 1926 ‘Dog Barking at the Moon’ painting by Spanish artist Joan Miro to ‘Doge’ Barking at the Moon. On April 18 morning, Musk tweeted an image of a dust storm with a Shiba Inu dog face as ‘dogecoin standard’ blowing over the ‘global financial system’. Musk called it ‘inevitable’. While Dogecoin’s size is nowhere near Bitcoin, the ‘joke’ currency’s market cap has been catapulted from over $1 billion during early January to $47...