With Ethereum’s switch to proof-of-stake, Dogecoin is now second only to Bitcoin among minable, proof-of-work coins. Dogecoin, like Bitcoin, is mined using proof of work, which means miners use computers, and a considerable amount of energy, to solve complex mathematical equations, validating transactions and receiving DOGE as a reward. Every day, miners extract roughly 14.4 million DOGE, according to crypto tracking platform Currency.com, adding to the coin’s 132.6 billion supply. Unlike Bitcoin, which has a limited supply of 21 millions that will ever exist, Dogecoin has no cap.
In recent years, Dogecoin has found itself an unlikely champion in the world’s richest person, Tesla founder Elon Musk, who has tweeted about the coin going back as far as 2019, and has caused the price of Dogecoin to pump on several occasions.
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