Meme cash are rising once more after the Thanksgiving vacation in america, with Dogecoin (DOGE) and different meme-themed tokens leaping as Bitcoin (BTC) checks a return to $99,000 after almost every week spent beneath that mark.
Dogecoin, the unique and most respected meme coin by market cap, is at the moment priced at $0.42, rising by 7% on the day per information from CoinGecko. DOGE final hit this mark on November 25 and had been beneath it within the days since.
Like different meme cash, DOGE is famously risky and might see wild each day swings. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless up enormous in latest weeks, leaping by 149% in worth over the past 30 days amid famed backer Elon Musk’s help of Donald Trump—and Trump’s election win as a pro-crypto candidate. Dogecoin hit a three-year excessive worth of $0.475 final Saturday.
Main meme cash are broadly up over the previous day, with Popcat (POPCAT) rising 12%, Bonk (BONK) up 13%, and Brett (BRETT) and Pepe (PEPE) every up about 9%.
The surge has burned some merchants betting on the value of main meme cash to go down, per information from CoinGlass, with almost $6 million in DOGE shorts and $3.3 million in Peanut the Squirrel (PNUT) shorts liquidated over the previous 24 hours. Total, $221 million price of crypto futures positions have been liquidated through the span, led by Bitcoin at about $65 million.
The overwhelming majority of these liquidated Bitcoin positions had been shorts, as the value of the main cryptocurrency can also be on the rise. It is buying and selling above $98,400 as of this writing and appeared to be making a play for $99,000 earlier Friday, touching $98,685—however has cooled barely since.
Final Friday, on November 22, Bitcoin jumped to an all-time excessive worth of $99,645, coming nearer to the $100,000 milestone worth than ever earlier than.
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