Elon Musk Reveals Surprise Support For Ethereum Cofounder’s Radical Plan To Upgrade ‘Joke’ Bitcoin Rival Dogecoin

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billionaire Elon Musk, after helping the bitcoin price reach never-before-seen highs this year with a $1.5 billion bet on bitcoin, appears to have abandoned the cryptocurrency for ethereum and meme-based dogecoin.

“I pretty much agree with Vitalik,” Musk posted to Twitter this week, replying to a wide-ranging YouTube interview with the ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin by AI researcher and podcaster Lex Fridman.

In the interview with ethereum’s de facto leader, Fridman…