The Dogefather from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

In 2021, Elon Musk started calling himself The Dogefather to signal his support for Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency based on a joke meme about a dog. That dog is now wagging the tail of the world's economy. In this episode, Jill Lepore looks at Silicon Valley's cryptocurrency craze through the lens of some very old science fiction. Like everything else about Muskism that purports to be futuristic, this idea is a relic, whose history serves as a warning.

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The Dogefather from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story is an episode from The Last Archive by Pushkin Industries.

This episode is 27:53 long.

This episode was published on Mar 29, 2025.

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