Key Reasons Why Dogecoin Price Has Just Pumped 100 Percent in One Day
‘Joke’ cryptocurrency Dogecoin has surged more than 101 percent over the last 24 hours, outperforming every single digital asset in the top 100 on CoinMarketCap.
The coin’s ascent to its highest level since October 2018 was accompanied by almost a 2,000 percent increase in its daily trading volume.
Alex DovbnyaThe power of TikTok
Its monumental price rally was driven by viral and semi-viral videos on the TikTok app that started getting coverage on June 7.
DOGE eventually surged to its local high of $0.00559 at 3:07 UTC on the Binance exchange before retracing.
The DOGE price corrected 34 percent in the span of 41 minutes before TikTokers came to the rescue.
Barstool Sports blogger and self-proclaimed ‘Vape God’ Tommy Smokes claims that he could turn his $850 into $850,000.
The participants of the #DogecoinTikTokChallange do not plan to cash out until Dogecoin hits $1.
I turned $600 into $850 in 24 hours with $DOGE
— Tommy Smokes (@TomScibelli) July 8, 2020
Soon that will be $850,000 https://t.co/iUNOd8vQCA
Yuri MolchanIt’s not a pump-and-dump
Elon Musk’s favorite cryptocurrency, which was inspired by a popular meme with a Shiba Inu dog, is no stranger to explosive price spikes that end up fading away.
However, Insider Monkey co-founder Meena Krishnamsetty believes that it’s not a typical pump-and-dump scheme, comparing the Dogecoin frenzy to Robinhood traders buying battered-and-beaten stocks.
‘It is more like a stock manipulation scheme where the participants are mostly aware of the risks and willingly participate.’
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