From New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow. This is Adale.

What started out as a kind of inside joke in the world of cryptocurrency

has quickly become for some a very serious path to wealth.

Today, Kevin Russe on the latest frenzy around a digital currency

and what it tells us about the flaws in the old economy

and the risks and rewards of the newer.

It's Friday, May 14th.

So Kevin, the last time we spoke with you, you had

quite improbably made $750,000 by selling a picture of your column

in the form of a non-fungible token.

So what have you been up to since then?

Well, quick update.

The value of cryptocurrency has skyrocketed in the time since that episode.

So the NFT that I sold is actually now worth about $1.4 million.

Show off again, I don't get to keep it. I am a fake cryptocurrency millionaire.

But there you go.

So I've kind of moved on from NFTs, but I've stayed very interested in the world of cryptocurrency.

And for the last few weeks, there's been one giant story in the world of cryptocurrency.

And that is the story of Dogecoin.

We're going to take Dogecoin to the moon.

A positively dogged rise that says here in the price of Dogecoin.

Dogecoin has been everywhere.

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