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by tcmb 752 days ago
> In 2021 the "Doge" meme sold as a non-fungible token (NFT) for $4m (£3.2m).

> Kabosu is also the face of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, which was originally created as a "joke" currency and is the sleeve sponsor of Watford Football Club.

Absurd times we live in, comedic and dramatic at the same time.
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another2another 752 days ago
That "joke" currency currently has a market cap of $23 billion and a trading volume of $2.6B over the last 24 hours.

>Absurd times we live in, comedic and dramatic at the same time.

So yes, totally agreed.

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riffraff 752 days ago
> is the sleeve sponsor of Watford Football Club.

is this true? it is not listed on the club's website[0], maybe it was a one-time-only kind of deal? I do recall a couple of those for nascar (dogecar looked great too), the whole dogecoin community was great back then, but this seems big-ish.

[0] https://www.watfordfc.com/club/partners

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dole 752 days ago
For the 2021-2022 season.

https://medium.com/instant-sponsor/watford-signs-dogecoin-as... https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/2759960/2021/08/14/exclusiv...

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SushiHippie 752 days ago
https://hypebeast.com/2021/8/watford-fc-dogecoin-sleeves-uni...

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/2759960/2021/08/14/exclusiv... (paywalled)

Seems like they were a 'sleeve sponsor' for the 2021/22 season

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