Atsuko Sato, the Japanese kindergarten teacher behind the Doge meme, wants to get a piece of the crypto craze.
She has just announced that the “meme of the decade” will be auctioned as a non-fungible token. The auction is set to go live on June 8 on the Zora marketplace.
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The proceeds will be donated to charity.
The Doge meme started with Sato sharing photos of Kabosu, her adopted female Shiba Inu dog, on Feb. 23, 2010.
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Her photo became viral several months later after it was shared on Reddit in October 2010.
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The meme later inspired programmers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer to create a Bitcoin parody called "Dogecoin" in 2013. Fast-forward to 2021, the meme cryptocurrency reached a market cap of $90 billion after being actively shilled by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his army of hodlers. Its current market value is roughly $47 billion.
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