{"id":4940,"date":"2024-12-31T20:16:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T20:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=4940"},"modified":"2024-12-31T20:16:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T20:16:34","slug":"if-you-invested-1000-in-pepe-coin-when-elon-musk-shared-a-meme-earlier-this-year-heres-how-much-youd-have-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=4940","title":{"rendered":"If You Invested $1,000 In Pepe Coin When Elon Musk Shared A Meme Earlier This Year, Here&#8217;s How Much You&#8217;d Have Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The price of<strong> PEPE coin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">PEPE<\/a>) is soaring Tuesday after billionaire <strong>Elon Musk<\/strong> changed his name on social media platform X and his profile picture to an image of Pepe the Frog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/24\/12\/42739155\/elon-musk-changes-his-name-to-kekius-maximus-on-x-sending-to-memecoin-skyrocketing-over-600\">playing video games.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Musk&#8217;s X changes sparked optimism for the meme coin, this wasn&#8217;t the first time the billionaire supported Pepe the Frog memes and images on social media. Here&#8217;s a look back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>Pepe coin,\u00a0based on the popular\u00a0Pepe the Frog meme, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/general\/education\/24\/11\/41946785\/if-you-invested-100-in-pepe-coin-at-launch-heres-how-much-youd-have-today\">launched in mid-April 2023<\/a> and gained interest from the cryptocurrency community. The number of holders quickly grew thanks to the meme&#8217;s built-in popularity and name recognition.<\/p>\n<p>While Pepe coin&#8217;s first year was memorable, the cryptocurrency\u2019s second year<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/11\/41945111\/pepe-listed-on-robinhood-coinbase-reaches-new-all-time-high-on-44-gain-traders-speculate-about-dogecoin-like-run\"> included a listing<\/a> on <strong>Robinhood<\/strong>, providing more accessibility for investors to buy it. The coin hit a new all-time high in December, following many cryptocurrencies that hit new all-time highs after the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The Pepe the Frog meme was created by artist\u00a0<strong>Matt Furie.<\/strong>\u00a0Because the\u00a0meme is so well known, being used by the world&#8217;s richest person and most followed account on X could help strengthen interest in the cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Musk changed his <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\">name <\/a>to <strong>Kekius Maximus<\/strong> on X in late December 2024 while changing his profile picture to an image that looks to have &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/general\/education\/24\/12\/42749281\/if-you-invested-1000-in-pepe-coin-when-elon-musk-shared-a-meme-earlier-this-year-heres-how-much\" alt=\"If\" you invested in pepe coin when elon musk shared a meme earlier this year here how much have today>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of PEPE coin (CRYPTO: PEPE) is soaring Tuesday after billionaire Elon Musk changed his name on social media platform X and his profile picture to an image of Pepe the Frog playing video games. While Musk&#8217;s X changes sparked optimism for the meme coin, this wasn&#8217;t the first time the billionaire supported Pepe [&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-4940","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\/4940","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=4940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}