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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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To the 'literal moon'? Elon Musk SpaceX tweet gives Dogecoin a 35% lift-off

RIght on cue for April Fool's Day, Musk promises to "put a literal Dogecoin on the literal moon," but for hodlers, the resulting gains were anything but a joke.

It may be an April Fool's prank, but when it comes to meme-based cryptocurrency Dogecoin (DOGE), it hardly matters.

DOGE/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bittrex). Source: Tradingview

Musk: SpaceX taking Dogecoin to "literal moon"

After a fresh tweet from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, DOGE/USD shot up 35% in minutes on April 1, hitting six-week highs.

Musk, newly dubbed the "Technoking" of Tesla, is known for his tongue-in-cheek Dogecoin publicity, and his antics on Twitter and in interviews have already succeeded in boosting the altcoin's price.

This time was arguably the most overt example of "memeing" a cryptocurrency to the moon, however, as Musk promised that his other company, SpaceX, would "put a literal Dogecoin on the literal moon."

Immediately, Dogecoin began rising, reaching a peak of $0.07 before cooling off but still retaining the gains.

Having began 2021 at just $0.004, DOGE's year-to-date gains as of Thursday stood at over 1,500%.

In a perhaps equally unlikely but genuine move, Latvian national carrier AirBaltic announced this week that passengers can now book flights using DOGE, along with several other altcoins. Bitcoin (BTC) has been accepted since 2014.

More than empty promises?

Musk, meanwhile, has found himself in hot water over his Twitter plugs, with reports emerging in February that the mogul was under investigation by U.S. authorities.

He is not the only one to fall foul of the establishment for doing so. As Cointelegraph reported, entrepreneur John McAfee was charged with a raft of offences last month, among which were his daily showcases of various cryptocurrencies on Twitter.

However, it was advertising Dogecoin in particular that got him into trouble, he claimed.

The concept of clamping down on alleged market manipulation remains a sore point among many lay investors in light of the Reddit GameStop debacle, which saw trading platforms prevent investors from transacting in a seemingly ad hoc fashion when their trading provoked heavy volatility.

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