The price of dogecoin jumped more than 15% on Friday before paring gains after Tesla began accepting the cryptocurrency as payment for some merchandise. On Friday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that the electric carmaker’s merchandise can be purchased with dogecoin. {tweet} Dogecoin topped $0.20 a coin at around 01:19 ET before paring some of those gains, according to Coindesk data. It was up more than 9% at $0.18 at 07:06 ET. Only a small number of items were buyable with the cryptocurrency, which originally started life as a joke coin. A whistle shaped like Tesla’s Cybertruck costs 300 doge, which is ... (full story)