Elon Musk’s The Boring Company Allows Payment Using Dogecoin

Customers can now use Dogecoin to pay for transit journeys on Elon Musk’s tunnel building company, The Boring Company’s (TBC) system in Las Vegas. According to a CNBC story from July 6, the new Bitpay payment option first appeared on Friday, one day after the debut of its new Loop station at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Although Elon Musk, the founder of The Boring Company, did not formally acknowledge the new payment option, he appeared to have done so when he replied to a tweet about it with the phrase, “Supporting Doge wherever possible.” Supporting Doge wherever possible — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 6, 2022 The same day, DogeDesigner, a graphic designer for the Dogecoin Foundation, posted a video to his 13,600 Twitter followers. He can be seen utilizing BitPay to pay 37.52 DOGE for a day pass and navigating the Vegas Loop booking page. The fourth stop on the 1.7-mile Las Vegas Convention Center Loop is the new Loop station, tucked away beneath Resorts World Las Vegas, an integrated resort. EXCLUSIVE: The Boring Company is accepting Dogecoin via BitPay. Here's the video of booking a day pass in Vegas Loop using #Dogecoin. @elonmusk @BillyM2k pic.twitter.com/lmpOkugYGp — DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) July 7, 2022 Dogecoin Payments on Loop Passengers can board human-driven electric vehicles bearing the Tesla brand to get from one stop to the next. The business is still working on integrating driverless cars into its transportat...