{"id":19806,"date":"2025-03-31T06:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T06:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=19806"},"modified":"2025-03-31T06:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T06:02:04","slug":"elon-musk-dismisses-dogecoin-use-by-government-clears-the-air-on-doge-department-two-very-different-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=19806","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Dismisses Dogecoin Use By Government, Clears The Air On DOGE Department: &#8216;Two Very Different Things&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Influential tech entrepreneur <strong>Elon Musk<\/strong> categorically ruled out the idea of the U.S. government using <strong>Dogecoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/doge\/usd\">DOGE<\/a>) on Sunday, even though his initiative, the Department of Government Efficiency, makes a playful reference to the meme-based cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: During a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/broadcasts\/1djxXVDmXLNGZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">town hall<\/a>\u00a0event in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Musk was asked whether the Dogecoin blockchain might be used to improve government transparency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell the names are similar, but they\u2019re doing two very different things,\u201d the <strong>Tesla <\/strong>and <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> CEO responded.<\/p>\n<p>Musk stated that he first planned to name the department the \u201cGovernment Efficiency Commission\u201d but changed it to the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/03\/44554819\/elon-musk-dismisses-dogecoin-use-by-government-clears-the-air-on-doge-department-two-very-\" alt=\"Elon\" musk dismisses dogecoin use by government clears the air on doge department: very different things>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Influential tech entrepreneur Elon Musk categorically ruled out the idea of the U.S. government using Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) on Sunday, even though his initiative, the Department of Government Efficiency, makes a playful reference to the meme-based cryptocurrency. What Happened: During a\u00a0town hall\u00a0event in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Musk was asked whether the Dogecoin blockchain might be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-19806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}