BREAKDOWN: Is Dogecoin at $0.58 a Triumph or an FU to the Crypto Industry?
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🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
As doge soars 45% in a day, the question of how to interpret its success is more pertinent than ever.
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NLW asked his Twitter followers about what the success of dogecoin meant to the crypto industry. He got an extremely diverse set of takes. Some see it as a triumph of crypto’s uncontrollability. Some see it as a triumph of the underlying bitcoin tech working on a forked chain that hasn’t had much maintenance in years.
Others see it as a damning indictment of the market as a whole; something that shows what a joke the whole industry is.
Which is it? Can it be both?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.2 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:14.8 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexus.io, neer.org, and Genesis Trading, and produced and |
| 0:19.5 | distributed by CoinDes. |
| 0:22.6 | What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, May 4th, and today we have an interesting debate. |
| 0:29.5 | We are officially in a different part of this bull market. Bitcoin is down about 4% over the last 24 hours to the mid-55,000s. |
| 0:38.9 | ETH continues its March currently at $3,400, 10% up in the last 24 hours. |
| 0:46.2 | Now, it has seemed a bit like it was finally ETH's turn to dominate the conversation. |
| 0:51.8 | Questions like, is there a shift in institutional fund flows to |
| 0:55.1 | Eath? How far on a journey to becoming a macro asset is it? How is it shifting the narrative of the |
| 0:59.9 | crypto industry as a whole? All of these seemed like the things that we would be talking about right now. |
| 1:04.9 | But no. Sorry, Ethereum, you don't get to have these conversations. at least not today. Because once again, stealing |
| 1:13.0 | everyone's thunder is the Shiba Inu themselves Doge coin. Doge is up like 45% in the last 24 hours. |
| 1:20.8 | It's currently sitting at like 58 cents. Of course, people are trying to point to reasons for this. |
| 1:26.6 | Yesterday, the Oakland Athletics announced that they were selling tickets for an upcoming |
| 1:30.2 | series with the Blue Jays for 100 Doge, and then quickly completed the novelty transaction. |
| 1:35.9 | Another more plausible to me explanation has to do with the token getting more accessible. |
| 1:41.0 | E. Toro on Monday announced support for Doge, citing significant demand among their |
| 1:45.6 | 20 million global users, and this morning Gemini also announced that it will support Doge. |
| 1:51.2 | There's also the hype leading up to Elon Musk's appearance on SNL this weekend. He did tweet |
| 1:57.6 | out the Doge father, SNL May 8th. Now, I recently did an episode that I called Crypto's War of the Roses, and it went |
| 2:05.2 | through the seven factions that I believe make up this bull market. |
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