Vitalik Buterin has made $4.3M from his $25K investment in Dogecoin … so far
In his recent appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast, Ethereum co-creator, Vitalik Buterin, revealed he profited more than $4 million from a $25,000 investment that he made into Dogecoin during 2016. But true to form, he gave it all away to charity. Dogecoin was created in December 2013 and sought to capitalize on the popularity […]
Vitalik burns $6.7B of Shiba to reward generous hodlers
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has burned nearly half of the supply of the popular Dogecoin clone, Shiba Inu (SHIB). In a statement embedded into the transaction on May 16, Vitalik Buterin explained why he decided to burn $6.7 billion worth of SHIB tokens, emphasizing the “generosity” of the “dog token communities.” “I’ve actually been impressed […]
DOGE surges as Elon Musk says he’s working with devs to ‘improve efficiency’
Elon Musk’s latest foray into crypto markets came a few hours ago when he tweeted he is working with the DOGE developers to improve the cryptocurrency’s efficiency “Working with Doge devs to improve system transaction efficiency. Potentially promising.” According to Coingecko, the price climbed 26% from $0.38 this morning to $0.48 at the time of writing. The […]
SlumDOGE millionaires: Dog tokens dominate Uniswap v3’s rankings
Despite DOGE’s dramatic crash following the highly anticipated episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by SpaceX founder and hypothetical Dogecoin CEO, Elon Musk, many dog-tokens that recently rode DOGE’s coat-tails are still up several-hundred percent in just a couple of weeks after driving billions in trade volume on Uniswap v3. In spite of its limited […]