Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency that was conceived as a joke, a satire against bitcoin that has been an online gold craze rush. But it has been doing extraordinarily few years since its launching on 6 December 2013.
It even got the backing of multimillionaire Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. He said that it can become the future currency of Earth, maybe even Mars.
But the face of Dogecoin is based on something much closer to our hearts: a dog.
A Shiba Ibu dog to be precise. And it was because of the dominant meme of the time that gave Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer the idea.
Shiba Confessions Tumblr, which started in June 2012, accelerated the popularity of the meme. Even a Republican congressman for Texas Steve Stockman was using it to criticize an opponent for being insufficiently right-wing.
Dogecoin cryptocurrency drew a community to do fundraising. Making enough money to send a Jamaican bobsleigh team to the Soci Winter Olympics.
They also sponsored Nascar driver Josh Wise and brought water to drought-stricken communities in Kenya.
Atsuko Sato, a Japanese nursery school teacher, adopting a Shiba after rescuing her from a puppy mill that shut down in November 2008. Naming her Kabosa because her face has the shape of the round citrus fruit of the same name.
Atsuko started a blog about her new pet and after about 8 months, on 23 February 2010, uploaded a picture that would take over the internet. Her blog also features the family’s cats Azalea, Ginkgo, and Onigir being a family in an apartment in suburban Tokyo.
She was raising awareness about the doubtful ethics of commercial breeding operations. Her pet and 19 other Shibas rescuees from such a place.
She did not think that her beloved rescue would become an internet sensation, nor the face of a cryptocurrency.
Shibas are usually highly energetic and traditionally a hunting dog in Japan. But Kabosu is very different. She is gentle and calm and not shy of the camera. So it makes sense that she become the face of a mockery cryptocurrency.
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