This year, the popularity of the altcoin correlated with the spikes in the price of the main cryptocurrency, but now the comic digital coin is ahead.
According to Google Trends , interest in Dogecoin among search engine users has surpassed the volume of searches for Bitcoin for the first time.
The service graph shows that in the current year the popularity of the altcoin correlated with the spikes in the price of the main cryptocurrency.
However, data from the last week will indicate that the number of requests for Dogecoin has exceeded the interest of users in the first digital coin.
This happened against the backdrop of the fact that Dogecoin was mentioned by Tesla CEO Elon Musk on the air of the American show Saturday Night Live.
After that, it became known that SpaceX would accept Dogecoin as payment for launching a space satellite into the moon orbit.
Dogecoin has also been selected as the unit of account for all transactions between SpaceX and Geometric Energy Corporation for the DOGE-1 lunar mission, the cost of Dogecoin, according to CoinGecko, is $ 0.51.
Over the past day, the altcoin has grown by $ 1, the growth for the week was 32% Since the beginning of the year, the price of a digital coin has increased by 12,400%. Bitcoin has grown by 99% over the same period. Now its price is $ 57.7 thousand.
Earlier, the founder and CEO of Morgan Creek Capital Management, Mark Yusko, predicted a rise in the price of bitcoin to $ 250 thousand within five years. In his opinion, the adoption of the main cryptocurrency will grow exponentially.