Why Dogecoin Is No Longer a Joke
How the meme-inspired cryptocurrency became an Elon Musk obsession
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7 min readFeb 8, 2021
Forget the Year of the Ox — 2021 is rapidly shaping up to be the Year of the Doge, a cryptocurrency based on the internet meme of a Shiba Inu dog with a less than stellar command of English, hence “doge” and not “dog.” Nowhere has this development been cheered on more than on Elon Musk’s Twitter…
