Famend actor William Shanter, well-known for his position of Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek, and a crypto fanatic, is participating within the closed beta testing of the brand new product being ready by Elon Musk for launch – X Cash.
Nevertheless, opposite to the long-term anticipation of the group to see crypto as a part of this new cost platform, Shatner has said that the connection of X Cash to crypto constitutes zero.
“X Cash is fiat, not crypto,” Shanter says
Shatner helps Elon Musk to beta check the brand new characteristic that’s to be rolled out on the X platform (often known as Twitter prior to now) – X Cash. This has been a long-standing dream of Musk to launch an everything-app, which would come with a platform for transferring and managing funds. It goes again to the late Nineties, when Musk based X.com, however later rebranded it as PayPal.
X Cash is presently being examined solely by US residents, and William Shatner helps to unfold the phrase concerning the new app coming, in addition to answering questions of the group on X about X Cash.
Simply so we’re all clear; @XMoney is fiat not crypto. It’s precise US {Dollars} backed by an actual financial institution and is FDIC insured as much as $250,000.
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) March 8, 2026
Final 12 months, X secured cost licenses in each single US state, which additionally included licenses associated to crypto. This drove up the group’s expectations that Musk would lastly add cryptocurrencies to X, Dogecoin particularly (Musk has been a long-term fan of this unique meme coin). Nevertheless, Shatner shattered these hopes when he tweeted on Sunday that X Cash could have nothing to do with cryptocurrencies and can function solely utilizing fiat cash – USD, in collaboration with a “actual financial institution.”
Elon Musk confirms $DOGE going to the moon
In early February, the tech magnate returned to the subject of taking precise Dogecoin to the precise moon. Elon Musk responded to a meme tweet, saying “Doge on the moon is inevitable.” The longer term trillionaire said a laconic “sure” in response to the tweet, hinting that the Doge-1 lunar mission continues to be on the agenda.
The group expects that when the lunar mission paid for with Dogecoin takes place, it’s going to additionally ship the value of the enduring meme coin “to the moon.” To this point, nevertheless, Dogecoin is buying and selling 87.73% under the all-time excessive reached in Might 2021, $0.7376. For the time being, $DOGE is altering palms at $0.09075 per coin.
