Article 5HM9J Dogecoin is crashing while Elon Musk is on Saturday Night Live

Dogecoin is crashing while Elon Musk is on Saturday Night Live

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Elizabeth Lopatto
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While Elon Musk hosted Saturday Night Live, Dogecoin investors sold. When SNL first went live, the cryptocurrency hovered around 69 cents (nice). But as the show wore on, the price dropped. As of this writing, it is worth 56 cents, an 18 percent plunge.

Me watching SNL crack cringe jokes while my portfolio plummets #DogeSNL pic.twitter.com/OBiA1d3Pe1

- (@N3KO1030) May 9, 2021

There was a slight recovery when Musk - on Weekend Update," SNL's parody news program - explained to a bewildered Michael Che and Colin Jost what Dogecoin was. (A hustle," Che finally said, knowingly.) He also called himself the Dogefather."

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