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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Simon Hunt

Dogecoin surges after Elon Musk changes Twitter icon

The price of Dogecoin has skyrocketed in recent hours after billionaire Elon Musk confused Twitter users by changing the app’s logo to a picture of a dog.

Dogecoin prices jumped over 30% to 7.9p when the dog graphic representing the coin popped up across the social media app, helping the market cap of the curious cryptocurrency to top $14 billion for the first time in months.

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