As the price of Bitcoin (BTC) dropped well below the psychological price level of $60,000, briefly threatening to decline further below $50,000, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk posted a cryptic message that some in the cryptocurrency community saw as relevant.
Specifically, Musk shared a popular meme that said, “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times,” implying that modern society is currently in the final stage, according to his X post published on August 5.
Indeed, the meme refers to images representing different stages of the Roman Republic and alludes to the concern, particularly expressed by the political right, that society today might be where the Romans were before their collapse or the moment in which “weak men create hard times.”
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Is Musk buying Bitcoin dip?
Commenting on this post, crypto trading expert Willy Woo suggested that Musk could be insinuating that he was ‘buying the dip,’ referring to the meme as an “encoded message” and arguing that he was actually hinting that ‘strong men’ should be buying assets when those assets are crashing.
In response to another commenter who challenged his view, asking for a “decide algorithm to reach that conclusion,” Woo explained that the meme that Musk posted was a Bitcoin meme and that “you need to speak meme if you are to understand Elon.”
At the same time, Joe Burnett, a Bitcoin and crypto enthusiast and the senior product marketing manager at Bitcoin-native financial services company Unchained, also commented on the post, simply telling Musk to “Buy bitcoin.”
On the other hand, Musk recently said that he was not going to endorse any crypto asset going forward, at least not in a serious way, arguing, however, that Bitcoin “and maybe some other cryptos” had some merit, adding that he had a “soft spot for Dogecoin (DOGE) because I like dogs and memes.”
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Meanwhile, the flagship decentralized finance (DeFi) asset was at press time changing hands at the price of $55,260, up 7.61% in the last 24 hours, recording a decline of 17.03% across the previous seven days, as well as accumulating a 4% drop on its monthly chart, as per data retrieved on August 6.
All things considered, Elon Musk might be using the low price of Bitcoin to stock up on it, especially given his support for the crypto industry in general. However, he has addressed this claim so far, so doing one’s own research when investing is critical.
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