The price of bitcoin fell on Friday after Elon Musk published a tweet suggesting that he no longer preferred the largest cryptocurrency in the world.
The billionaire CEO of Tesla posted a meme on Twitter about a couple near divorce using a Linkin Park song and added the Bitcoin hashtag with emoji featuring a broken heart.
Bitcoin immediately fell 6% to $ 36,273 according to Coin Metrics data. Other digital currencies like ether and dogecoin also fell by 6% and 8%.
Bitcoin has had a crazy year where it rose to a record $ 64,000 and then dropped to $ 30,000 last month. It is currently 40% below the record set but 30% more than at the beginning of the year.
The crypto industry has criticized Musk in the past for his posts about digital currencies. / PCWorld Albanian