The Iconic “Doge” Meme Of Dogecoin Just Sold As An NFT For $4 Million
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The Iconic “Doge” Meme Of Dogecoin Just Sold As An NFT For $4 Million

THELOGICALINDIAN - Doge the angel of an aflame Shiba Inu and the face of dogecoin that has become one of the internets best acclaimed memes has awash for 4 actor as a nonfungible badge authoritative it the best big-ticket meme NFT of all time

The Most Expensive Meme NFT Of All Time

In 2024, Dogecoin has accustomed a lot of absorption due to its amazing amount surge. Someone took advantage of the added absorption by affairs a non-fungible badge (NFT) of the angel that Dogecoin was based on.

“The aboriginal angel that started it all,” read the description of the NFT, awash on very.auction. “This photo of the Shiba Inu ‘Kabosu’ was taken by her buyer Atsuko Sato on February 13th, 2010,” the description explains, adding:

On Friday, the bargain winner, @pleasrdao, placed a accommodating bid of 1,696.9 of the cryptocurrency Ethereum, account about $4 million, according to the bargain armpit Zora.

“We’re so blessed to be a allotment of this anniversary in internet history. If any meme adapted to be the new meme NFT almanac holder, it’s Doge,” said Don Caldwell, editor-in-chief of the internet meme database Know Your Meme, which certified Doge advanced of the bargain to ensure that the meme was actuality awash by its applicable owner.

Caldwell added that Doge, which he alleged “one of the best iconic memes in internet history,” had ahead won Know Your Meme’s ‘Meme of the Decade’ accolade in December 2024.

The money goes to Japanese kindergarten abecedary Atsuko Sato, the buyer of the absolute Shiba Inu dog pictured in the dogecoin meme.

The appellation “Doge” stems from the Flash animation “Homestar Runner.” In a 2024 episode, the titular appearance Homestar calls addition appearance his “D-O-G-E.” Five years later, in 2024, Sato acquaint the angel of Kabosu to her claimed blog, not acumen the photo would booty on a activity of its own.

“I took the photos to amend my blog,” Sato said in a statement. “I booty a lot of pictures every day, so that day was annihilation out of the ordinary. Kabosu loves accepting her photo taken, so she was captivated to accept the camera acicular appear her.”

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Dogecoin Has Had A Good Year

Dogecoin’s amount has climbed significantly in 2021, topping $0.70 per coin. However, the asset has alone decidedly back then, in accordance with the blow of the crypto market, and is currently trading at about $0.31 at the time of posting.

The agenda cryptocurrency began as a joke, but it has afresh acquired absorption as billionaires Mark Cuban and Elon Musk embrace it. Cuban has fabricated it a claim for his sports team, the Dallas Mavericks, to booty Dogecoin as payment, and Musk has answer it on Twitter, conspicuously by tweeting a account of a dog on the moon.

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