The price of the cryptocurrency based on the famous internet meme broke its price decline in early November 2022, as people started buying the coin after FTX's collapse. This rally only lasted for a few days, however, as a Dogecoin was worth roughly 0.16 U.S. dollars on November 16, 2025. This is a different development than in 2021, when the crypto became very popular in a short amount of time. Between January 28 and January 29, 2021, Dogecoin's value grew by around 216 percent to 0.023535 U.S. dollars after comments from Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The digital coin quickly grew to become the most talked-about cryptocurrency available, not necessarily for its price - the prices of Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), and several other virtual currencies were much higher than those of DOGE - but for its growth.

Dogecoin's market cap grew ******** in January 2021 after tweets from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and has kept on growing since. By February 2021, the market cap of the cryptocurrency based on the famous internet meme had already *************. Compared to both the Bitcoin market capitalization as well as the Ethereum market cap, Dogecoin was not as popular.

Dogecoin trading volume did not reach until significant value until 2021, when public endorsements and certain events led to significant investor interest. The biggest recorded volume occurred in **************, two days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted - and eventually deleted - a cryptic tweet that said "Doge Barking at the Moon", along with a picture of the 1926 painting with the same name from Spanish artist Joan Miró. Many people saw this message as yet another endorsement for the cryptocurrency, as it looked like a reference to "to the moon" - originally a catch phrase from Reddit group WallStreetBets for the GameStop stock and eventually became associated with Dogecoin. This because around this time, the Dogecoin price development exceeded that of Bitcoin.

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Memecoin Shiba Inu saw its price grow by more than 300 percent within one and the same month, marking a trading fury reminiscent of Dogecoin in early 2021. Indeed, the SHIB coin ranked as one of the biggest crypto in the world based on 24h trading volume in October 2021 - with trading activity being almost as high as that of Ethereum. Originally starting out as a fun token based on the famous Japanese dog breed, the digital currency grabbed mainstream attention in 2021 probably due to its low barrier of entry: Even after its price spikes, Shiba Inu was one of the cheapest coins available, especially when compared to the price of 99 other cryptocurrencies. Combine this with survey information that most consumers in the U.S. and the UK invest in crypto either for growth or fun, and Shiba Inu is probably seen by many as a relatively simple, "quick win" investment. As of May 19, 2025, the price of one million Shiba Inu is 14.08.

Between December 2020 and January 2021, the fee for a transaction involving Dogecoin increased by over ***** percent. Transaction fees refer to the money paid to the cryptocurrency's miners to get transactions accepted, and cost increases can occur when user numbers increase: as the blockchain has limited space available to process all the transactions, it effectively becomes congested. Growing transaction fees therefore represent both the number of Dogecoin transactions that are waiting in line to be processed, but are also meant as an incentive to miners to process the especially large transactions - as they are more profitable for them. The increase in fees for the cryptocurrrency coincide with both an increase in Dogecoin transactions as well as a price surge for Dogecoin after tweets from Tesla CEO Elon Musk in early 2021.

Somewhat resembling developments of Dogecoin in early 2021, the market cap of Shiba Inu (SHIB) more than tripled in only a few weeks. This rapid growth especially occurred since September 2021, with the cryptocurrency breaking the ** billion U.S. dollar barrier multiple in the following month. Whilst no exact reason was given why the memecoin grew so fast during this time, the digital currency did become available on Coinbase, one of the world's most well-known crypto exchanges, on September 17. This move, and the fact that consumers in the U.S. and the UK overall tend to invest in crypto for fun or as a potential growth investment, might explain the popularity of the dog-themed coin. Indeed, Shiba Inu ranked as the number ** cryptocurrency in the world based on market cap in late October 2021 - closely behind DeFi-affilated like Uniswap (UNI) and Terra (LUNA).

The mining of Dogecoin became increasingly profitable in 2021, reaching the highest revenue figures since early 2018. This follows after a surge of activity in the cryptocurrency due to comments from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who remarked on Twitter that people should invest in this digital currency. During the mining of cryptocurrencies, a computer is trying to solve complicated logic puzzles to verify transactions in the blockchain. When this process is completed, the miner receives cryptocurrency as a block reward. The underlying dynamic is that machines with more computing power - or hashrate - are likely to solve more puzzles, and therefore mine more cryptocurrencies. Whether a miner can make money with this depends on various costs such as electricity consumption during this process, transaction fees or whether the hardware used is efficient or not.

Shiba Inu trading volume accelerated significantly in October 2021, as the *** trade volume grew from roughly *********** U.S. dollars into double digits. Whilst the cryptocurrency based on the famous Japanese dog breed already had a trading peak early in ********, ************ could be seen as the breakthrough month for the coin as it became one of the most valuable cryptocurrencies available. The meme-inspired digital currency saw a major price increase during this month, as it invoked a similar sentiment as to early 2021 when Dogecoin became a popular cryptocurrency to invest in.