dogecoin

English
This English term is a hot word. Its inclusion on Wiktionary is provisional.

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  • Dogecoin

Etymology

doge + coin

Noun

dogecoin (countable and uncountable, plural dogecoins)

  1. (uncountable, Internet) A cryptocurrency featuring the Shiba Inu from the "doge" Internet meme as its logo.
    • 2017 August 19, Roderick Abad, "Slow Internet speed helping PHL fend off cyber felons", Business Mirror.
      The success of ransomware could be attributed to wide adoption of digital currencies or crypto currencies, such as bitcoin, litecoin ukash, dogecoin, ripple and monero, among others.
  2. (countable, Internet) A unit of this currency.
    • 2013 December 26, Timothy B. Lee, "Dogecoins and Litecoins and Peercoins oh my: What you need to know about Bitcoin alternatives", Washington Post.
      And there really are a lot of people willing to pay cash (or at least Bitcoins, which are easily converted into cash) for dogecoins.
    • 2014 June 17, Andy Greenberg, "Hacker Hijacks Storage Devices, Mines $620,000 in Dogecoin", Wired.
      Litke and Shear say mining that many dogecoins couldn't be accomplished with the hijacked storage devices alone—each has the cryptocurrency mining power of a smartphone, they say.

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