Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX Hit With $258 Billion Dogecoin Lawsuit

Elon Musk and two of his companies, $Tesla(TSLA.US)$ and SpaceX, are facing a $258 billion lawsuit, according to Thursday reports.
Bloomberg today reported that an American citizen is suing the world’s richest man for allegedly pumping $Dogecoin(DOGE.CC)$ . The lawsuit alleges that Musk was part of a racketeering scheme to back the cryptocurrency.
Dogecoin was originally designed in 2013 as a joke and to poke fun at $Bitcoin(BTC.CC)$ . But it went from being an obscure “meme coin” to arguably the most talked about digital asset in the space during 2020 and 2021.
This is mainly because Tesla CEO Musk would post memes about it on Twitter and, in turn, pump its price. It’s now the 11th biggest digital asset, with a market cap of $7.5 billion. At one point, that figure was as high as $88 billion—bigger than the market cap of many companies on the $S&P 500 Index(.SPX.US)$ .