REDDIT FRENZY PUMPS UP DOGECOIN! NOW WORTH BILLIONS! Dogecoin, a digital coin originally founded as a joke, skyrocketed Thursday after a Reddit board talked about making it the cryptocurrency equivalent of GameStop.
The price of dogecoin stood at $0.057410 at 10 a.m. ET Friday, according to Coingecko, up around 150% on the day. It had eased from $0.070755 late Thursday when it had seen a surge of 800% in just 24 hours. The virtual currency had earlier hit an intraday high of $0.072330.
