Why Dogecoin Is the Meme Stock of the Cryptocurrency Universe

Bloomberg2021-04-21

Should investors consider backing a joke?Ever heard the one about the joke that’s worth $50 billion?In 2013,two friends created Dogecoin— a parody of a cryptocurrency that was meant to be worthless. ...

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Jessica1804
2021-04-21
Jessica1804
@holikai93”FOMO has a lot to do with it.” LOL
- Dsd:
  had to agree
- Tatsuya:
  afraid so
- HLK93:
  HAHAHAHA
jakejak3jake
2021-04-21
jakejak3jake
Wow
Nimisgnow
2021-04-21
Nimisgnow
DOGE
- DK9229:
  Moon
- Denn205:
  Go
Jeremyekh
2021-04-21
Jeremyekh
Good
Qianfa
2021-04-21
Qianfa
Good
ZYMing
2021-04-21
ZYMing
doge gogogo
- DK9229:
  Moon

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They hope to use their earnings to pay off some debt, including student loans. But before then, they will probably buy more. And they have already started investing in another new cryptocurrency: SafeMoon. They’ve put in around $500.Brayden Johnson, 26, an electrician from Alberta, Canada, bought Dogecoin in memory of his Shiba Inu named Hudson who passed away last year at age 15.“I actually think about him anytime someone says the word doge,” Johnson wrote in an email. “I can picture in my head all the times that I’ve seen him do the goofy face of the meme and all his fur get scrunched up in his collar.”When Johnson saw that Dogecoin was up big, he was really excited and did not expect it to gain so much at such a rapid rate.“It feels good to be up, because who couldn’t use some extra money?” he said. “It feels a little sweeter that an investment made because I missed my dog has paid such nice dividends.”...but why is this happening?This week’s surge may appear confounding. How can a joke be worth so much?FOMO has a lot to do with it.“People are trying to recapture that magic that Bitcoin created for those who were there early,” said Michael O’Rourke, chief market strategist at JonesTrading. “The key differentiator here is Bitcoin is going to be capped, there’s going to be a limited number of coins.”Since its start in 2009, Bitcoin has had a fixed supply of 21 million coins that will ever be minted. Not so for Dogecoin: There is no limit to the amount that can be created.Ardent enthusiasts might use this fact to draw comparisons between Dogecoin and fiat currencies. Of course, there isn’t a Bitcoin-like cap on the number of, say, dollars that the U.S. government can print. Yet while Dogecoin has a lot of memes and jokes behind it, the dollar has the U.S. economy and population. O’Rourke says this explains why there is so much trust in the dollar.“I still don’t know what the purpose of Dogecoin is other than a speculative instrument,” he said. “You’re speculating on something that is there just because people are speculating on it. That’s a very dangerous mix.”Plus, there was a campaign to rally Dogecoin’s price up to 69 cents on or by April 20 — the 4/20 holiday associated with weed smoking.Dare you Doge?So, should you get in on the Dogecoin action?“It’s almost irresponsible to lend credence to the speculation by even asking that question,” said David Trainer, chief executive of New Constructs, an independent securities research firm based in Nashville.But people are asking it after seeing their friends’ pocket money without doing all that much work or research. Trainer says everyone’s situation is different.“If you have excess funds that you like to speculate with instead of betting on the Yankees, and you want to put it into cryptocurrencies, then maybe, yeah, that would make sense,” he said. “As long as you’re not afraid to lose it all.”What may be clouding investors’ vision, Trainer says, is the fact that for all the recent talk of how overvalued some stocks and cryptocurrencies are, the excitement has really yet to subside. It’s unclear how much longer this can go on for.“I think the root cause of all this is that people have forgotten the difference, the distinction, between investing and speculating,” he said.Some have compared the Dogecoin surge — with its memes and explosive growth — to the burst of interest in GameStop Corp. earlier this year. 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