Elon Musk has had a busy week at the helm of Twitter. In addition to several discussions with the media about labels and other changes to his social network, the billionaire is offering cryptocurrencies to anyone who solves the mystery of an emerald mine.
Basically, some people and news portals claim that Musk became a billionaire because his family owned an emerald mine in Zambia, an African country, during apartheid.
Such a story is not new. Still in March 2021, Musk appears to be defending himself against such accusations as he recaps the beginnings of his empire building.
“This article is fake”wrote Musk in 2021, taking into account that he arrived in Canada in 1989 with only 2,500 Canadian dollars and then ran up a student debt of 100,000 dollars. “There is no evidence of an ’emerald mine’.”
“My father and his extended family have depended on my brother and me for financial support for over 20 years.”
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My father and his extended family have depended on financial support from my brother and me for over 20 years.This article is actually correct: https://t.co/eVpCX9V1NB
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 25, 2021
Elon Musk offers 1 million DOGE to whoever solves the mystery of the emerald mine
For some reason, the discussion about the emerald mine came up again this Wednesday (12). At the beginning, a Dogecoin investor offers 69,420 DOGE to anyone who can prove the story is real. In the series, Musk himself raises the bid.
Elon Musk never had an emerald minewrote DogeDesigner. “An open offer of 69,420 DOGE to all media outlets that publish false information. Send me proof of existence [da mina] and take your DOGE.”
“I will pay a million Dogecoin for proof of this mine’s existence!”replied Elon Musk.
I will pay a million Dogecoin for proof of this mine’s existence!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 12, 2023
Such a tweet has already been viewed more than 3.4 million times and of course some people have already found some clues. One of them points to an archived page of Elon Musk’s interview with Forbes, in which the billionaire mentions such an emerald mine.
“In South Africa, my father had a private jet that we flew in incredibly dangerous weather and barely made it back”points to Elon Musk’s statement to Forbes. “This sounds a bit crazy, but my father also had a stake in an emerald mine in Zambia. I was 15 and I really wanted to go with him, but I didn’t know how dangerous it was.”

For those who don’t know, despite spending much of his life in Canada and the US, Musk was born in South Africa and lived there until he was 18.
So far, the billionaire has not responded to the 2014 Forbes article, when Musk had a fortune of $ 6.7 billion. Nine years later, he is worth $186.4 billion.
Dogecoin continues to rise
With Dogecoin trading at $0.087, the price of 1 million DOGE offered by Musk is equivalent to $87,000, low for the billionaire but enough to change the lives of many of his followers.
As for price, DOGE rose 30% last week after the billionaire adopted DOGE’s famous dog instead of the Twitter logo, but then dropped again.
As early as this Thursday (13), Dogecoin is trading at a high of 5.6% after Twitter announced cryptocurrency trading within the social network itself.
Source: Live Coins

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