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By Luc Olinga The billionaire wants the fast-food chain to accept the Dogecoin cryptocurrency as payment for its burgers. A year ago, Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, launched a big challenge to McDonald’s. At the time, the influence of the whimsical and charismatic entrepreneur was on the rise. He had nearly 72 million followers on the social network Twitter. The challenge was to prompt the fast-food chain to accept the dogecoin cryptocurrency, of which Musk is an evangelist, as a means of payment in its restaurants. In return Musk offered the burger giant a huge advertisement: The Te…