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It was a $1 or bust for the dogecoin community on Wednesday—and now it seems like dogecoin fanatics are just left with the bust. However, a failed attempt at producing an epic rally in doge doesn’t seem to have deflated the staunchest supporters of the parody coin.
A social-media initiative to drive dogecoin to a $1 ended the way it was most likely to according to skeptics.
Dogecoin prices
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were last changing hands on CoinDesk at about 31 cents on Wednesday, down 15% on the day, and off more than 30% from a peak at 45.05 cent put in on April 16.
Wednesday trading action comes after Tuesday’s campaign fell about 70 cents shy of its ambitious goal. Dogecoin fans on social sites Reddit and Discord, using hashtags #DogeDay and #Doge420, aimed to promote the day for the crypto as “Doge Day,” in an effort to help propel the surging crypto into the stratosphere, adding to the asset’s already spectacular gains in 2021.
Indeed, dogecoin owners have enjoyed a parabolic surge in the so-called meme asset that was engineered back in 2013 as a lighthearted riff off bitcoin
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It is up around 6,500% so far this year. By comparison, gold futures are down around 5.5% in 2021, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average
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and the S&P 500 index
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are both up by around 11%.
Put another way, $1,000 invested in dogecoin at the start of the year would be worth over $57,000, based on MarketWatch’s calculation of a starting price of 0.005405 cent for dogecoin at the start of 2021 and a roughly 31 cent trading price now.
Still, fans of dogecoin have ignored warnings from skeptics who point to the dangers of investing in an asset that doesn’t boast the utility or “store of value” concepts linked to bitcoin and Ethereum’s Ether
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On Redditor using the handle EthereumDream explained why dogecoin isn’t considered in the same league as Ether or bitcoin:
Bitcoin has a supply limit. No coins can ever be added above 21 million, so it is considered a good store of value. Unlike Bitcoin, Dogecoin is inflationary and has no supply limit. Each minute, 10,000 Doge is added into the network. At this rate, miners add more than 5 billion coins per year.
On Reddit’s r/dogecoin chat forum, meanwhile, bullish investors were still touting the fact that the crypto was trading at 30 cents, compared with less than a penny at the start of 2021.
Others were also noting that dogecoin fanatics have been attempting to push the value of the crtpto to $1 long before so-called Doge Day:
One dogecoin holder appeared merely to point to the fruits of his investments in dogecoin:
The catalyst for dogecoin’s rally is hard to pin down but it has come as Tesla Inc.’s
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CEO Elon Musk has used his Twitter account to openly push the price of doge higher, drawing criticism from some Wall Street investors.
Billionaire Mark Cuban, who now accepts doge as payment for tickets to his NBA franchise, also has been championing dogecoin.
Despite the apparent risks of losing money, bitcoin supporters believe that a rise to $1 for dogecoin is a matter of when nd not if.
