Tesla Removes Dogecoin Payment Note From US Support Page

Tesla has removed its Dogecoin (DOGE) payment note from the main payment and pricing support page for the Tesla Shop, a change visible on the automaker's English-language website as of this writing. The page previously carried a line stating that Dogecoin payments could be accepted for select products; that wording no longer appears on the US version of the page. Support pages are typically where shoppers verify payment options before checkout, which gives the quiet edit outsized practical weight for US customers.

The removal is not global. Localized support pages for Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Belgium and Denmark still inform shoppers that certain items can be paid for in DOGE. The company's dedicated Dogecoin payments page also remains online and continues to describe the token as the only cryptocurrency Tesla accepts for merchandise.

Tesla has issued no statement explaining the edit, and it remains unconfirmed whether DOGE checkout is being phased out or whether the page was simply reorganized. There is precedent for caution: in 2021, chief executive Elon Musk indefinitely suspended Bitcoin payments at the company, citing environmental concerns. According to Coinotag's reading of the page history, the change suggests housekeeping rather than a policy shift, but shoppers should treat DOGE availability as product-specific until Tesla confirms otherwise. For now, the localized pages and the dedicated Dogecoin page remain the company's most explicit public guidance on where DOGE checkout still applies.

Musk's "lol" Reply Draws Renewed Attention

Musk reentered the crypto conversation on Wednesday, replying "lol" to an archived screenshot of his profile from the NFT boom. The gesture was read as nostalgic irony rather than a pump signal, but it nonetheless drew attention back to the largest meme coin at a moment when its price structure is firming.

Long-run return data cited in the report show that September has historically closed positive for Dogecoin, averaging +12.5%, and this month is tracking that pattern with a +14% gain so far. The fourth quarter is the coin's strongest stretch on record: November has averaged +15.5% and December +18.9% going back to 2013. Those are averages of past seasons rather than promises of a repeat, but against that backdrop, the sideways, accumulation-heavy autumn price action reads less like stagnation and more like a classic buildup into year-end, according to the analysis.

Technicians have also been constructive: an earlier Coinotag note on a Kumo breakout confirmation — a push above the cloud of the Ichimoku charting system — flagged the signal near $0.088, and price has since pushed above that marker.

Whale Transfer Meets Negative MVRV Reading

On-chain data features prominently in the current picture. Analytics platform Santiment reports that Dogecoin's 365-day MVRV ratio — market value versus realized value — has fallen to -19.26%. A negative reading indicates that most holders who bought within the last year are sitting on unrealized losses, a condition that has historically suppressed the urge to sell at a loss. Santiment classifies this territory as a strong buy zone, a band from which the asset has previously staged clean rebounds.

Meanwhile, whale services recorded a transfer of 250,000,000 DOGE — roughly $23.2 million at a reference price of $0.093 — from an anonymous wallet to Binance. Inflows of this size are usually interpreted as preparation for profit-taking, though Dogecoin's resilience to spot selling pressure in recent weeks suggests the movement may reflect internal liquidity redistribution rather than panic selling.

Buy-side demand has been visible elsewhere: separate Coinotag reporting showed $1.17 million in daily spot ETF inflow, the largest since May — a figure that captures demand arriving through listed fund products rather than direct exchange orders.

The report concludes that, with media attention renewed, a flushed on-chain picture and historically strong fourth-quarter statistics, the speculative shakeout appears complete and DOGE is trading in what it describes as a rare, deep-discount band for participants focused on data over emotion.

$0.0976 Resistance in Focus

Coinotag's proprietary 42-indicator composite support/resistance (S/R) scoring engine puts DOGE at $0.0965, up 4.74% over 24 hours. The composite rates the $0.0976 resistance at 71/100, driven by the confluence of a flipped support-to-resistance level, the 0.236 Fibonacci retracement and the upper Bollinger Band, with $0.1050 next at 68/100 (Fibonacci 0.000, Donchian upper). Support at $0.0939 scores 89/100, powered by the 0.382 Fibonacci, a flipped resistance-to-support level and the Ichimoku Tenkan and Kijun lines.

Momentum indicators are constructive — RSI at 61.57 with a bullish MACD — while perpetual funding sits at a mild 0.0040%, with $558.2 million in open interest and a 3.46 long/short ratio (77.6% long), where open interest tracks the total value of outstanding derivative contracts. The Fear & Greed index, a standard sentiment gauge, reads 71 (Greed). According to the composite, a close above $0.0976 targets $0.1050, while a loss of the $0.0939 level would invalidate the bullish thesis. The near-term checkpoints, then, are twofold: any follow-up from Tesla on its payment pages, and how price interacts with the $0.0976 and $0.0939 levels the composite already defines.