{"id":74984,"date":"2026-03-05T13:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=74984"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:04:31","slug":"elon-musks-x-money-beta-starts-buzz-on-metal-debit-card-meanwhile-dogecoin-spikes-and-asks-who-pays-a-2-3-fee-when-you-can-just-accept-doge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=74984","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s X Money Beta Starts Buzz On Metal Debit Card, Meanwhile Dogecoin Spikes And Asks Who Pays A 2-3% Fee When You Can Just Accept DOGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Dogecoin\u2019s <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"DOGE\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/DOGE-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/doge\/usd\">DOGE<\/a>) official X account encouraged businesses on Wednesday to adopt DOGE payments to avoid paying credit card fees amid <strong>Elon Musk\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018X Money\u2019 payments beta rollout.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Just Accept DOGE\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The popular memecoin asked, \u201cIf you run a business, just accept Doge. Why pay a 2-3% fee to a credit card company?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Exact global figures are hard to ascertain due to varying regional data, but in the U.S. alone, credit card firms earned $148.5 billion from merchant fees in 2024, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/money\/research\/average-credit-card-processing-fees-costs-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Motley Fool report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Dogecoin network has collected $962,000 in transaction fees over the last year and $5.6 million over the last three years, <a href=\"https:\/\/tokenterminal.com\/explorer\/projects\/dogecoin\/metrics\/fees\">according <\/a>to data from Token Terminal. The average transaction fee stood at $0.03 as of this writing, as <a href=\"https:\/\/bitinfocharts.com\/dogecoin\/\">reported <\/a>by BitInfoCharts.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you run a business, just &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/51057458\/elon-musks-x-money-beta-starts-buzz-on-metal-debit-card-meanwhile-dogecoin-spikes-and-asks-?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Elon\" musk x money beta starts buzz on metal debit card meanwhile dogecoin spikes and asks who pays a fee when you can just accept doge>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dogecoin\u2019s (CRYPTO: DOGE) official X account encouraged businesses on Wednesday to adopt DOGE payments to avoid paying credit card fees amid Elon Musk\u2019s \u2018X Money\u2019 payments beta rollout. \u2018Just Accept DOGE\u2019 The popular memecoin asked, \u201cIf you run a business, just accept Doge. Why pay a 2-3% fee to a credit card company?\u201d Exact global [&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-74984","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\/74984","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=74984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}