A Dodgy Pump For Doge?
After a month flat-lining DOGE lifted off yesterday in one huge spike that propelled its price to a new 2019 high of $ 0.00253 ( 60 satoshis ). The 20 % pump caused daily book to surge from $ 20 million to $ 50 million with most of it on Gate.io and ZB.com. It is the biggest single motivate for Dogecoin since mid-december but was it a concurrence coming on April first ?
The chitter fertilize for the Litecoin outgrowth, forked in 2013, is deoxyadenosine monophosphate common populated by adolescent memes involving Shiba Inu dogs, moons and lambos with identical short of meaning, like the coin itself. The lone late pinch of note was one admit that the project is in necessitate of a CEO, but the candidates are drollery ;
We have listened to your concerns. We have decided that Dogecoin does need a CEO. person who can lead us into the future while maintaining the core values of what we are.
Below are the candidates, vote wisely. @ VitalikButerin @ SatoshiLite @ elonmusk @ MarshallHayner
— Dogecoin ( @ dogecoin ) April 1, 2019
The Reddit feed was even more doubting though some did make a little profit on the pump with comments including ;
“ Any idea about what ’ s happens ? April jest ? Pump and Dump ? ” … “ I made money joke or not I cashed in ” … “ heart and dump. 100 %. The signs have been in this submarine for weeks, that there was a eventuality design this. And here it is. ” … “ Please tell me this international relations and security network ’ thymine some brainsick Doge coin April Fools joke. “
The community discordance admin and Dogecoin core dev ‘ migidragon ’ confirmed the pump and deck ;
“ It ’ s a planned, coordinated pump. It ’ randomness been talked about and ‘ primed ’ here for the concluding few weeks. Expect a dump soon. ”
The only semi-serious announcement from the project was that the Blockchain Education Network ( BEN ), Doge ’ second education sleeve, was renaming to focus only on this coin ;
To recognize the one true blockchain, we are REBRANDING by flipping the “ B ” in BEN to become DEN – the Dogecoin Education Network !
We now teach only @ dogecoin and oeuvre w/ Dogecoin-based projects. We besides merely accept donations in $ DOGE and will launch an IEO built on Dogecoin ? ? pic.twitter.com/vhKg9FaC2k— BEN ( @ BlockchainEdu ) April 1, 2019
So it appears that yes, the crypto diligence ’ randomness clown is still fooling approximately, but 20 % is however no joke when your altcoin becomes the lead performer in the top one hundred, albeit very concisely .
More April Fool Shenanigans
early folly took over the twitter-sphere yesterday as crypto analyst ‘ fil₿fil₿ ’ joked that he had converted to a Bitcoin Cash maximalist ;
Had considered doing april fools suggesting that id converted to BCH maximalist .
high risk – broken reward .
Realised the chump is already on you if youre one indeed felicitous April fool Bcashers .
— farad one l ₿ f one l ₿ ( @ filbfilb ) April 1, 2019
While Vitalik Buterin was pictured in front of a huge Justin Sun billboard advertising his rival ;
hypertext transfer protocol : //twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1112581840630484993
The last joke, at least today, has been on Ethereum though a Tron has managed a 24 hour advance of over 9 % while ETH has not moved. Markets in general are still trending up and most altcoins are in the green as we leave behind the pumps and pranks and get on with things in the kingdom of crypto .
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