It’s official, yet again: Elon Musk supports Dogecoin. Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, reiterated his support of Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency created as a joke in 2013, on Tuesday. He noted that Tesla accepts Dogecoin for merchandise and reiterated that SpaceX will do the same soon. “A lot of people who are not that wealthy have encouraged me to buy and support Dogecoin,” Musk said in an interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha. “I’m responding to those people.” Dogecoin gained 3% as of 8:33 a.m. in London as is down 64% this year. ... (full story)