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Who Is Greg, Dogecoin's Latest "Fake" CEO?

THELOGICALINDIAN - The Dogecoin association has spawned a new meme by announcement Greg to a absent role

Dogecoin has spawned a new meme. Following abashing over the actuality that it does not accept a CEO, the crypto association jokingly assigned that role to one of its top meme accounts, Greg.

Billy Markus Says He Is Not Dogecoin CEO

On May 31, Dogecoin co-creator Billy Markus noticed an commodity afield advertence that he was the CEO of Dogecoin.

Markus was acceptable apropos to an commodity from Tech Times appear on the aforementioned day. Not alone is Markus not the CEO of Dogecoin, he has not been complex in the activity back 2015 and he holds no Dogecoin afar from baby tips that he has received.

Despite his abandonment from the project, Markus continues to animadversion on Dogecoin. That gave him the befalling to canyon his acclaim off to Greg, a meme architect alive in the Dogecoin community.

Greg Runs With the Joke

The buyer of the Greg annual played forth with the antic by demography acclaim for Dogecoin’s amount achievement that day.

Of course, Dogecoin’s amount cannot be anon afflicted in this way. Greg alone commented on the amount access afterwards the fact.

Greg additionally mentioned Coinbase’s accessible affairs to account DOGE on its exchange. He stated: “I’ve been on the buzz with Coinbase all day and assuredly assertive them to do this.” In reality, the crypto association has pressured Coinbase to account Dogecoin for several years, and Coinbase appear affairs to do so in mid-May.

The added publicity has acquired Greg’s followers to access significantly. In backward May, he had aloof 50,000 followers on Twitter. Today, he has over 70,000 followers. Meanwhile, Reddit’s /r/Dogecoin association has created over 150 posts about Greg.

Elon Musk Is Dogecoin’s “Other” CEO

Greg is not the alone one to booty on the non-existent role of Dogecoin CEO. In 2019, Elon Musk jokingly alleged himself the above CEO of Dogecoin. Musk connected to appoint with the Dogecoin association and is now contributing to the project.

Markus fabricated advertence to Musk’s captivation in Dogecoin, advertence that Musk “will be accustomed the role of Chief Meme Overlord.” That appellation is a advertence to Musk dubbing himself “Technoking of Tesla” in March.

Dogecoin has been criticized due to the actuality that abundant of its contempo publicity has appear from Elon Musk and added celebrity endorsements. Today’s account may assure the crypto association that Dogecoin can still alike a grassroots meme campaign.

Disclaimer: At the time of autograph this columnist captivated beneath than $75 of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins.