Dogecoin hits 2024 high
While President-elect Donald Trump has brought a lot of attention and enthusiasm to the original cryptocurrency, bitcoin — which has soared past a new record high of $87,000 — Elon Musk’s favorite meme coin, dogecoin, is also enjoying a massive post-Election Day rally.
Today dogecoin’s price rose to over $0.30 for the first time in over three years and has seen over $18 billion in trading volume in the past 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap.
Musk has long been a fan of the meme coin, and called himself the “dogefather” in his 2021 SNL appearance. His enthusiasm for the coin has pumped the price before, as in 2022 when he announced that customers could purchase Tesla merch with doge, sending the price up 15%.
His current relationship with Trump and the possibility of him taking a role in the administration as head of the “Department of Government Efficiency” — or, that’s right, DOGE — is sending the coin once again to the moon.