After tweeting a fun fact about Uranus orbiting the Sun once every 84 years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has pushed the price of a tiny cryptocurrency of the same name by over 50 percent.
The Uranus (URAC) token—which is only tradable on Bittrex and Bilaxy—also recorded a 75,224 percent jump in trading volume.
It currently has a fully diluted market cap of roughly $6 million.
Musk's Uranus tweet sparked a frenzy among his followers, collecting nearly 150,000 likes at the time of writing.
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Bitcoin Surpasses $40K for the First Time in More Than Two Weeks
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