Tesla to accept DOGE payments at supercharging station in Santa Monica
Elon Musk, CEO of electric vehicle carmaker Tesla, has now announced plans to accept Dogecoin payments at its newly-launched supercharging station in Santa Monica, California, making it the first Tesla’s supercharging facility to do so. Revealing its plans via a Twitter post on Saturday, the supercharging facility is situated in the Hollywood area of Santa Monica, Southern California. Apart from offering DOGE payments, the facility will also feature a futuristic diner/drive-in theater.
Of course, you can pay in Doge, Musk said in a reply to Tesla Console founder Rayan Zohoury, who tweeted about the immediate occupancy of superchargers soon after the inauguration. Elon Musk, a vocal proponent of Dogecoin, started accepting Dogecoin payments for Tesla merchandise from November 2021. In a December interview with TIME Magazine, Musk once again endorsed Dogecoin and said that the meme coin is a better form of payment than Bitcoin.
He noted: “Even though it was created as a silly joke, Dogecoin is better suited for transactions. The total transaction flow that you do with Dogecoin is transactions per day has much higher potential than Bitcoin.”
Speculations about SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer founded by Musk, testing Dogecoin payments also emerged recently after a graphic designer at the Dogecoin Foundation, who goes by @cb_doge on Twitter, found a source code in the SpaceX merch store.
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| 1 |  BTC |
Bitcoin predictions | 81.6% | 27 | $63 731.32 | -1.41% | -5.15% | $1 254 718 965 668 |  |
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| 2 |  ETH |
Ethereum predictions | 74.4% | 45 | $3 048.04 | -2.05% | -6.28% | $365 984 339 181 |  |
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| 3 |  USDT |
Tether predictions | 96% | 1 | $1.000527 | 0.01% | 0.04% | $109 527 253 340 |  |
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| 4 |  BNB |
Binance Coin predictions | 88.4% | 18 | $558.98 | -0.11% | -6.15% | $83 585 746 502 |  |
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| 5 |  SOL |
Solana predictions | 75.2% | 51 | $142.40 | -1.33% | -5.02% | $63 625 804 667 |  |
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| 6 |  USDC |
USD Coin predictions | 94% | 2 | $1.000198 | 0.01% | 0.03% | $33 909 730 390 |  |
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| 7 |  XRP |
XRP predictions | 69.6% | 58 | $0.515110 | 2.69% | -4.81% | $28 397 582 786 |  |
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| 8 |  DOGE |
Dogecoin predictions | 68.8% | 59 | $0.152823 | 0.19% | -10.17% | $22 000 479 669 |  |
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| 9 |  TON |
Toncoin predictions | 65.6% | 64 | $6.30 | -10.61% | -5.87% | $21 855 614 662 |  |
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| 10 |  ADA |
Cardano predictions | 67.2% | 60 | $0.490471 | 6.05% | -2.74% | $17 472 860 958 |  |
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| 11 |  SHIB |
SHIBA INU predictions | 62.8% | 85 | $0.000023 | 0.64% | -5.01% | $13 501 804 322 |  |
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| 12 |  AVAX |
Avalanche predictions | 67.2% | 60 | $35.69 | 0.71% | -5.73% | $13 488 699 302 |  |
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| 13 |  STETH |
Lido stETH predictions | 96% | 1 | $2 941.39 | -0.40% | -3.32% | $10 258 752 564 |  |
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| 14 |  WBTC |
Wrapped Bitcoin predictions | 82.8% | 31 | $63 865.14 | -1.06% | -5.00% | $9 923 604 206 |  |
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| 15 |  DOT |
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