Dogecoin (DOGE) traded up 1.6% against the US dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 17:00 PM E.T. on August 6th. In the last week, Dogecoin has traded down 22.8% against the US dollar. One Dogecoin coin can currently be purchased for $0.0965 or 0.00000171 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. Dogecoin has a market cap of $14.03 billion and approximately $1.17 billion worth of Dogecoin was traded on exchanges in the last day.
Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day:
- UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded up 0.8% against the dollar and now trades at $5.72 or 0.00010168 BTC.
- Litecoin (LTC) traded 4.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $58.50 or 0.00103893 BTC.
- NyanCoin (NYAN) traded down 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.
- MegaCoin (MEC) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $4.30 or 0.00015776 BTC.
- Polymath (POLY) traded 11.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.11 or 0.00000198 BTC.
- Lotto (LOTTO) traded down 2.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0005 or 0.00000002 BTC.
- DEI (DEI) traded down 2.5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0129 or 0.00000020 BTC.
Dogecoin Coin Profile
DOGE is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Scrypt hashing algorithm. It launched on December 6th, 2013. Dogecoin’s total supply is 145,426,616,384 coins. Dogecoin’s official Twitter account is @dogecoin and its Facebook page is accessible here. Dogecoin’s official website is dogecoin.com. The Reddit community for Dogecoin is https://reddit.com/r/dogecoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here.
Buying and Selling Dogecoin
It is usually not currently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Dogecoin directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to trade Dogecoin should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Gemini, Coinbase or GDAX. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase Dogecoin using one of the exchanges listed above.
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