- Elon Musk on Tuesday appeared to urge McDonald's to accept dogecoin as payment.
- The Tesla CEO said he'd eat a McDonald's Happy Meal on TV if the chain accepted the coin.
- The dogecoin cofounder Billy Markus last week replied to a McDonald's tweet saying: "I want a fry."
Elon Musk on Tuesday appeared to urge McDonald's to accept dogecoin as payment, saying he'd eat a Happy Meal on TV if the chain did so.
Last week, Billy Markus, the cofounder of dogecoin, replied to a McDonald's tweet featuring a picture of fries, saying: "i want a fry." McDonald's then replied to Markus' tweet with a picture of a shiba inu, the mascot of dogecoin.
Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, tweeted Tuesday: "I will eat a happy meal on tv if @McDonalds accepts Dogecoin."
McDonald's didn't immediately reply to Musk's tweet or respond to Insider's request for comment on the matter.
Responding to Markus' tweet last week, another user tweeted McDonald's: "If you guys accepted Dogecoin payments I would go more often." McDonald's replied: "We appreciate hearing your interest and continuously evaluate the payments experience."
Musk is a longstanding advocate of dogecoin, and his tweets referencing the cryptocurrency often move the market. Before he posted his McDonald's tweet Tuesday, dogecoin was trading at about $0.135. Shortly after he tweeted, the coin was trading at about $0.14, a gain of nearly 4%.
Musk announced last month that Tesla would let customers buy some merchandise with dogecoin, including the company's Cyberquad for Kids and the Cyberwhistle.