Dogecoin Founder Excited at Elon Musk's Company's Staggering Breakthrough

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Billy Markus, the co-creator of the original meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin (created in collaboration with Jackson Palmer in 2013), has expressed his enthusiasm for Elon Musk's recent tweet on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter).

In the tweet, Musk, the CEO of Tesla and founder of SpaceX among other companies, unveiled a groundbreaking device developed by his venture Neuralink.

Elon Musk's Mission to Restore Sight to the Blind

Musk reposted a tweet from Neuralink announcing the development of Blindsight, a device that enables individuals who have lost both their eyes and their optical nerve to regain their sight.

The success of the device, however, is contingent upon the preservation of the visual cortex. Musk emphasized that the device has the potential to "enable those who have been blind from birth to see for the first time."

Blindsight Device: A Revolutionary Breakthrough

The Blindsight device from Neuralink has the potential to restore vision even in individuals who have lost both their eyes and their optic nerve. With an intact visual cortex, it may also enable those born blind to experience sight for the first time.

Setting Realistic Expectations

To manage expectations, Musk clarified that the vision restored by the device will initially resemble "Atari graphics" with low resolution. However, he projected that vision could eventually surpass natural vision, allowing patients to perceive a wider range of wavelengths, including infrared, ultraviolet, and even radar wavelengths "like Geordi La Forge."

DOGE Founder Embraces Innovation

Billy Markus expressed his excitement and support for the innovative step in a comment below Musk's post, stating, "Well, that's incredible."

Markus, known online as Shibetoshi Nakamoto, is not only known as the co-creator of Dogecoin but also as a "personal online friend" of Elon Musk, despite their interactions being primarily limited to comments on each other's X posts.

A Mutual Admiration Society

Markus consistently supports Musk's ideas and innovations, expressing unwavering enthusiasm. The two influential figures align on political views as well. In return, Musk has been an ardent supporter of Dogecoin, using his tweets to influence its price in the past.

In 2021, Musk referred to himself as "The DogeFather" on X and publicly endorsed Dogecoin during his debut on Saturday Night Live. This endorsement contributed to DOGE's all-time high of $0.7376 in May that year.