Snoop Dogg Offers Album for Bitcoin
Snoop Dogg tweets that his next album will be available for purchase with Bitcoin.
In December 2013, rap icon Snoop Dogg took to Twitter with a simple message: 'My next record available in bitcoin n delivered in a drone.' The post went viral almost instantly, as fans and media speculated whether Snoop was serious or just making a tongue-in-cheek remark. At the time, Bitcoin was experiencing one of its first major bull runs, peaking above $1,000, and the tweet reflected how digital currency was becoming a mainstream talking point.
BitPay and Coinbase even responded publicly, offering to facilitate sales. Though the full rollout of Snoop’s album through Bitcoin did not materialize at that moment, his tweet was historically important because it marked one of the earliest celebrity endorsements of Bitcoin’s potential as a payment method. It blended music culture with cryptocurrency hype, creating a perfect storm of attention that spread far beyond tech circles.Snoop’s humor, combined with the sudden visibility of Bitcoin, helped solidify its reputation as a counter-cultural yet increasingly legitimate technology.