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"The Musk Effect: Santa Floki Coin Soared 18,800% In 2 Days Following Tesla’s CEO Tweet"

2021-12-25 [vendor] Elon Musk pumps Santa Floki
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Incident Details

On Christmas, Elon Musk tweeted a very cute photograph of his pet dog, Floki, wearing a Santa suit with the caption “Floki Santa”. Creators of a memecoin called “Santa Floki” ($HOHOHO, of course) capitalized on this with a claim that he’d been tweeting about their coin, and the token surged by 18,840% in about 48 hours (from $0.000000012935 to a whopping $0.00000245). The value quickly fell back below this new high, and settled back to around the pre-tweet price not long after.

Technical Details

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Elon Musk pumps Santa Floki

Timeline

  1. 2021-12-25 Breach occurred
  2. 2021-12-25 Publicly disclosed