Am getting out 50% of stake
Am early
If I wait until morning it might hit 80 cents
EDIT: Swapped 50% of my DOGE for more BTC. There was little point going to the dollar, and no point going to ETH, as the former shall dilute, and the latter went up almost as much as DOGE since my last-tranche buy of BTC / ETH / DOGE. As BTC is the laggard, I went with it, perhaps it shall rise to $75K earlier than DOGE getting to $ 1.00.
decrypt.co
Dogecoin Surges to $0.69, Becoming Fourth-Largest Crypto
The meme coin is now the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, following this week's price rally.
By Liam Frost
In brief
- Dogecoin skyrocketed to $0.69 today after Winklevoss-led crypto exchange Gemini listed it.
- DOGE's new market capitalization of $86 billion made it the fourth-largest cryptocurrency.
The trading frenzy around “people’s cryptocurrency” Dogecoin (DOGE) has propelled the meme coin to a new all-time high of $0.69 today.
According to crypto metrics platform CoinMarketCap, DOGE is currently trading at around $0.65, up 20% on the day and 113% over the past week. Earlier today, however, the token set a new price record of around $0.695, bringing Dogecoin proponents’ short-term dream of “pumping it to $1” significantly closer.
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Notably, the level of $0.69 is the exact price target for an artificial “pump” that many traders were promoting and hyping up on social media over the past couple of weeks, starting around “DOGE Day” on April 20. DOGE day itself proved to be a dud, but since then, Dogecoin's listing on crypto exchange Gemini has helped to propel the cryptocurrency's market cap—the total combined price of all tokens currently in circulation—to over $86 billion.
Climbing the ranksAs a result, DOGE has become the fourth-largest crypto by market cap, right behind Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Binance Coin. And while they're all enjoying upward price movement in recent weeks, Dogecoin has outpaced most of them. It's a “special case,” opined Ben Weiss, CEO of crypto ATM provider CoinFlip, in an email exchange with Decrypt.
He argued that other factors beyond the overall crypto bull market have contributed to its rise. "One of which is the embracement by prominent figures, such as Elon Musk, who has frequently posted on Twitter about the coin and caused significant price movements,” Weiss told Decrypt.
At the same time, Dogecoin’s freshly boosted market capitalization has made it the 143th-largest asset in the world, according to metrics platform AssetDash. This latest push allowed DOGE to climb up in rank by 48 positions within the span of just one day.
Weiss also pointed out that the Dallas Mavericks, an American professional basketball team owned by another famous billionaire Mark Cuban, began accepting DOGE payments on their website in early March, “showing that it can be a viable currency.” Additionally, it is becoming increasingly easy to buy DOGE, either via exchanges, apps, or crypto ATMs.
“Finally, momentum in online forums has caused a flurry of investment as people aim to ‘pump Doge’ to the price of $1. Many people view Doge as the ‘people's cryptocurrency’ because it was created as a joke,” Weiss added.
A wolf in DOGE’s clothing?Publicly available data also revealed that recent trading activity that pushed DOGE’s price to its new all-time high seems to be artificial and facilitated largely by crypto whales, CoinTelegraph pointed out today.
Yesterday, for example, the daily transaction volume of Dogecoin amounted to over $58 billion—that’s 70% more than was transferred on Bitcoin’s blockchain ($34 billion) and 260% higher than on Ethereum ($16 billion), according to BitInfoCharts.
At the same time, Dogecoin’s total number of actual transactions in the last 24 hours—only 92,000—was much lower than Bitcoin’s (304,000) or Ethereum’s (1.5 million). This disparity can be explained by the simple fact that a single DOGE transaction value amounted to $629,000 on average yesterday. By comparison, Ethereum's average transaction value was just $9,559 during the same period.
Meanwhile, on-chain data shows that Dogecoin isn't quite the "people's cryptocurrency" that its proponents claim it to be. Just one address currently holds 28% of Dogecoin’s total supply, while another dozen own 18%.
This means that an astounding 46% of all existing DOGE—worth $39.6 billion today—is concentrated in the hands of just 13 addresses, while 108 wallets hold 66% in total (although it’s hard to say whether they're controlled by individuals or institutions).
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