YAY Dogecoin!!
eveyone's fav e-currency featuring a Shiba Inu reached a worldwide cap of $1billion today! and it's still going. $1.1b, $1.2b and hopefully it continues... #ToTheMoon !!
u may read the rest of the article here: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/04/cryp...1-billion.htmlA cryptocurrency that was created as a parody and named after an internet meme now has a market value of more than $1 billion.Data from CoinMarketCap showed dogecoin's current market value is about $1.17 billion — as of Jan. 5, 2:56 p.m. HK/SIN — and traded at $0.010360 per token.
Last month, the virtual coin rose more than 400 percent and briefly topped $0.0107 in late December.
Dogecoin is an example of an altcoin, which are peer-to-peer digital tokens that descended from bitcoin. The more popular ones include ethereum, which topped $1,000 for the first time on Thursday, and ripple, which saw a staggering 35,000 percent jump in its value last year.
Dogecoin, for its part, was created in 2013 and its mascot is a Japanese shiba inu dog popularized by an internet meme that dates back to 2010. The creators of dogecoin positioned the virtual token as "the internet currency" that can allow users to easily send money online.
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