By Louis Goss
A $258bn lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of running a “crypto pyramid scheme” to bolster the price of Dogecoin has expanded to include seven new claimants and six defendants, including The Boring Company.
The lawsuit, first filed in a New York federal court in June, accuses the world’s richest man of running a ponzi scheme by promoting Dogecoin on the internet.
The case argues Dogecoin in itself is “simply a fraud whereby ‘greater fools’ are deceived into buying the coin at a higher price.
It accuses Musk of forming a “Doge Army” of influencers, celebrities and his own corporations to “increase the price, market cap and trading volume of Dogecoin”.
Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency initially invented as a “joke” by software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer in 2013.
It is considered the first “meme-coin” due to its basis on the Shiba Inu “doge” meme, from which it derives its name and image.
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