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Elon Musk Offers One Million Dogecoin for Evidence Regarding the “Emerald Mine Rumor”

Published on: April 15, 2023 at 6:54 AM ET
Reni D.
Written By Reni D.
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Cover Image Source: Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue | Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris; Getty Images | Matt Cardy; Getty Images | Dan Kitwood

Technology prodigy and genius, Elon Musk is offering $1 million dogecoin to anyone who provides him with hard evidence of the existence of the “Emerald Mine” which was rumored to have been owned by Musk’s family in the past.

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Image Source: Getty Images | Photo by Justin Sullivan

Elon Musk makes the headlines once more and this time he’s willing to offer a million dogecoin, to anyone with proof that his family ever owned an emerald mine. According to The New York Post , the South African-origin tech genius was born into an upper-middle-class family in Pretoria. Maye, his mother worked dual jobs – she was a model and a dietitian, whereas, his father worked in multiple fields, including that of an engineer and property developer. The fact that his father was involved with property development insinuated the fact that he may have owned an emerald mine in Africa.

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Image Source: Getty Images | Photo by Kevork Djansezian

The rumor started after a Forbes interview in 2018 was brought to light in which Musk mentions that his dad “had shares in an emerald mine in Zambia”. To add fuel to the fire, the interview has been removed from the website. Yet there exists an archive of it that leaves fans pondering over the cause of it being archived and not completely taken down if it was really fake. Fact-checkers verified claims and found no grounded evidence of the existence of such a mine owned by Musk or his family.

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Image Source: Getty Images | Photo by Christian Marquardt – Pool

Musk has a total net worth of $185 billion (and probably counting), according to Forbes. He also owns the automobile company, Tesla, along with the SpaceX program – a longtime passion and obsession of his, aiming for Mars and beyond. Musk truly worked his way up from the bottom, working all through college and ending up with $100,000 deep in student debt. He couldn’t afford a 2nd computer that would run complex programs for his website to remain active. So he programmed during the night and the website ran during the day: the only option he had was to continue to hustle to get to where he currently is.

The new CEO of Twitter is amazing pic.twitter.com/yBqWFUDIQH

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 15, 2023

This isn’t the first time that Musk has made a splash on the internet. Ever since he resumed ownership of Twitter, many left the platform concerned over its “uncertain future” and “privacy.” Much later he also changed the iconic “Blue Bird Logo” which is originally Twitter’s Trademark to the Doge meme. This ignited a series of both bewildered and hilarious responses from users even though the Blue Bird is now back where it belongs.

$OPTI OPTIMUS is inspired by Elon Musk’s newest creation. They are building a decentralised AI venture fund and incubator.A cryptocurrency project made to support and honor Elon Musk’s newest robot frnd, Optimus. Optimus AI was made to pay homage to Tesla’s Optimus bot pic.twitter.com/g3Vgfg7FEh

— NeffXBT (@Neffxbt) April 11, 2023

Regardless of all the changes he continues to add to the Twitter platform and the world, Elon Musk is paving the way for the future in AI and technology rapidly. He recently unveiled a prototype of the humanoid robot “Optimus” which is being developed by his company Tesla. The robot is said to undergo a series of tests that aid human efforts such as watering plants and lifting heavy objects and many more. The bot is speculated to be made available commercially to the public in a few years’ time, reports BBC.

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