Billy Markus, who created the original meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin along with Jackson Palmer in 2013, took to Platform X (formerly known as Twitter) to comment on a media article about his net worth as of 2023.
In his typical tongue-in-cheek manner, Markus (known on App
Does Markus really have 5 million dollars? Here is his comment.
The article published by Techiegamers claimed that as of this year, Markus is worth $5 million. Markus commented on that, saying that if he had that $5 million, he would be “a lot calmer with money.”
Billy Markus revealed that, contrary to what the article says, he has much less than a million dollars, jokingly adding that he has “a very strong interest in making money.”
Based on Markus’ previous tweets, he loves his job, which is probably related to software engineering, and wouldn’t trade it for a position on the App X team working for Elon Musk, even though they have a friendly relationship. . communicating mainly through tweets.
As previously reported, in 2021, when the price of DOGE plummeted around 90% from its all-time high of $0.7376, reached in May of that year, this caused Markus to face significant financial losses.
Billy Markus sells part of his Ethereum
Markus is an active user of the X app, who now has 2.1 million followers and is using the subscription feature on the Elon Musk-integrated additional content. In addition, Markus also uses the monetization feature that entitles him to a portion of the advertising earnings of App X.
Earlier this year, Markus was even forced to sell some of his Ethereum to pay taxes for 2022. In an ironic twist of fate, the second-largest crypto rose right after that sale, so Markus sold his ETH for a much lower price. amount of fiat than he could have.
In one of his recent posts on X, he revealed that he likes Bitcoin and Ethereum as assets and hates all ERC-20 tokens. He left his DOGE project several months after its launch in 2013 and has not invested in cryptocurrencies since, aside from buying some Ether. He never mentioned having Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies in his tweets.
Despite his fame and influence within the crypto community, Markus prefers to avoid publicity and communicate with cryptocurrency fans only through social media.
