The real-life dog behind memecoin DOGE is seriously ill

Kabosu, the Shiba Inu canine down the look of Dogecoin (DOGE) and the “doge” meme is successful a “dangerous position” healthwise, according to her owner.

In a Dec. 26 Instagram post that was past shared connected Twitter, Atsuko Satō, a Japanese kindergarten teacher and Kabosu’s proprietor said the rescue canine was successful a "dangerous" state, but assured her followers that she volition “absolutely fine” and is “getting powerfulness from each implicit the world” (translated) from supporters.

Satō pictured with an sick Kabosu. Image: Instagram

The quality brought an outpouring of enactment from followers. One Twitter idiosyncratic sending good wishes offered to afloat screen “any expenses needed to marque definite she gets the champion treatment.”

The co-creator of Dogecoin, Billy Markus, successful a Dec. 26 tweet asked his 2 cardinal followers to nonstop “[love] and [prayers] and bully vibes” to Satō and Kabosu.

doge (kabosu) is sick :( delight nonstop her and @kabosumama your ❤️ and and bully vibes ~ pic.twitter.com/8IqnYWFhWN

— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) December 26, 2022

Satō didn’t disclose what wellness complications Kabosu is facing, but successful an earlier station said that Kabosu has been sick since Christmas Eve, refusing to devour oregon drink.

It should beryllium noted that Shiba Inu dogs person an mean beingness expectancy of betwixt 12 to 15 years and Kabosu celebrated her 17th day earlier successful 2022.

A representation of Kabosu from Satō’s blog successful 2010 inspired the viral “doge” meme format.

The archetypal representation that kicked disconnected the “doge” meme. Image: Satō’s blog.

Eventually, the popularity of the meme sparked the 2013 instauration by Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer of what’s considered the archetypal “meme coin,” Dogecoin, which the brace said they created arsenic a joke.

Kabosu is simply a fashionable fig successful the crypto world, Ethereum laminitis Vitalik Buterin besides visited Kabosu and Satō successful their Tokyo flat successful 2018.

Buterin and different Ethereum squad members pictured with Kabosu. Image: Satō’s blog.

Dogecoin remains popular

Despite being created arsenic a gag and coming into its 10th twelvemonth of existence, Dogecoin remains hugely fashionable wrong the crypto world.

DOGE is the 8th largest coin with its astir $10.4 cardinal marketplace capitalization according to CoinGecko data and saw a measurement of implicit $332 cardinal successful the past 24 hours.

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Dogecoin was the second astir searched crypto connected Google down Bitcoin (BTC) averaging 5.85 cardinal monthly worldwide searches successful 2022.

Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter had galore Dogecoin users hopeful that helium would integrate DOGE connected the societal media level causing the price to rally connected the news.

Musk has been a longstanding proponent of Dogecoin and astatine 1 point, earlier helium admitted it wouldn’t beryllium feasible, planned to charge Twitter users 0.1 DOGE to station connected the level successful a bid to chopped down connected scam posts.

Dogecoin has sparked a assortment of akin dog-themed cryptocurrencies specified arsenic Shiba Inu (SHIB), Dogelon Mars (ELON), and Floki (FLOKI), which is inspired by Musk’s Shiba Inu called Floki.