Bitcoin Prices<br />Sink After<br />Elon Musk Posts<br />Breakup Meme.<br />On June 4, Elon Musk posted a meme that appeared to<br />mourn the end of his relationship with Bitcoin. .<br />The meme shows a<br />couple breaking up<br />along with a broken<br />heart emoji and a<br />bitcoin hashtag. .<br />Hours later, he posted another meme of a<br />man saying “I miss you” to a graph that seemingly<br />showed Bitcoin’s recent price increase and plunge. .<br />Shortly after his tweets, the price of Bitcoin<br />fell seven percent and hit $36,723. .<br />Musk’s meme sent other cryptocurrencies falling as well, with Ethereum dropping eight percent to $2,639. .<br />Dogecoin also tumbled almost<br />13 percent to 36 cents. .<br />The Tesla CEO has frequently triggered<br />significant cryptocurrency price changes,<br />particularly with Dogecoin and Bitcoin.<br />In December 2020, Musk sent Dogecoin soaring by nearly<br />20 percent by obscurely tweeting, “One word: Doge.”.<br />Bitcoin plunged 12 percent in early May<br />when Musk announced that Tesla would<br />no longer accept it as payment
