Billionaire Mark Cuban announced that starting today he and his basketball team will begin accepting the tokenDogecoin as payment.
In May 2019, the team began accepting Bitcoin for tickets, merchandise, and more. products. Like Bitcoin, Dogecoin transactions will be processed by the BitPay service.
The legendary investor often posts his opinion about cryptocurrencies on Twitter. He recently wrote that he bought his son DOGE to teach him how to invest.
Dogecoin was created as a joke in 2013.Since then, he has been in the spotlight more than once. More recently, Elon Musk and Snoop Dog, as well as other celebrities, have published a series of posts about dogs, which caused a significant spike in prices. The US Securities and Exchange Commission considers Musk's tweets containing memes, pictures and mentions of Dogecoin as a pump of the asset and is preparing to bring charges against the billionaire.
On Monday, Bitcoin ATM company CoinFlip tweeted that any of its 1,800 locations across the country now allow Dogecoin to be purchased.
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