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Dogecoin Welcoms El Salvador To The MacDonald Family

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By Chief

Dogecoin co-founder Billy Markus welcomed Bukele to the “McDonald's club.” This comes after a Twitter interaction between Markus and the fast-food behemoth prompted a flurry of requests to add DOGE as a payment option at McDonald’s.  

Where El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has posted a photoshopped image of himself wearing a McDonald's uniform.



There has been long running jokes about getting jobs in Fast-Food Chain during the crash of market..


His self-deprecating tweet went viral, collecting over 88,700 likes and plenty of reactions from prominent names.

El Salvador has now lost an estimated $20 million by investing in Bitcoin, with all of Bukele’s purchases being in deep red. Some started joking that the impoverished nation would soon become the first “fourth-world” country because of the president’s poorly timed buys.

The world’s “coolest dictator” is not giving up on Bitcoin. On Jan. 22, he announced another purchase, snapping up 400 BTC for 15$ million. El Salvador adopted the largest cryptocurrency as an official currency last September.

Bitcoin is currently trading close to $35,000 on Jan. 23.

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