Elon Musk's BBC Interview Spikes This Memecoin By 200%

Elon Musk’s Comment Sends Unknown Memecoin Soaring

In an interview with BBC, Elon Musk joked he is no longer Twitter CEO and his pet dog Floki has taken over.

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Since his comment in the Twitter Space interview, a little known memecoin named FLOKICEO surged nearly 200%.

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The little known memecoin is currently ranked at 2630 on CoinMarketCap in terms of market capitalization.

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FLOKI CEO is up whooping 521% in the last seven days.

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Given the market size and trading volume of just a few million dollars, the little known crypto could just be another pump and dump scheme.

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Elon Musk had tweeted in February that he is making his pet dog Floki Twitter CEO.

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Elon Musk has not shied away from expressing his support for the most famous meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin.

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