Dogecoin becomes second largest PoW cryptocurrency

Meme-inspired cryptocurrency Dogecoin (DOGE) is now formally the second largest proof-of-work (PoW) crypto when it comes to market cap, following the Ethereum network’s proof-of-stake upgrade on Sept. 15. 

Bitcoin (BTC) in fact stays miles forward of Dogecoin’s market cap of $7.83 billion, although the well-followed memecoin continues to be comfortably forward of the third place PoW cryptocurrency Ethereum Classic (ETC) (with a market cap of $4.69 billion), Litecoin (LTC)  ($4.01 billion) and Monero (XMR) ($2.65 billion).

One Dogecoin fan seemed to be in disbelief of Dogecoin’s rise to turn into the second largest PoW cryptocurrency, stating “who would have thought that this is able to occur. Congrats #Dogefam.”

But it surely wasn’t taken properly by everybody. One Twitter person responding to a tweet in regards to the information requested how folks may take the crypto business critically with a memecoin so near the highest spot, emphasizing the necessity to take away “ineffective cash” from public view.

However Dogecoin may additionally quickly discover itself competing towards ETHPoW – the Ethereum PoW laborious fork chain that can proceed mining, according to the official Twitter account of the ETHPoW, which is at the moment priced at $13.64.

Ethereum’s transition to PoS might have added stress on PoW-powered cryptocurrency networks to transition to a extra sustainable consensus mechanism.

In a press release to Cointelegraph, Lachlan Feeney, the founder and CEO of Australian-based blockchain improvement company Labrys stated “the stress is on” Bitcoin now to justify the PoW system over the long run.”

He added that “reluctance to hold out its personal transition to PoS will probably be big.”

In the meantime, the Dogecoin Basis has been contemplating a transition of Dogecoin to a proof-of-stake after first hinting on the shift in Sept. 2021, which was put ahead by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, who can also be an advisor for the Dogecoin Basis.

In Dec. 2021, the Dogecoin Foundation released its “Dogecoin Trailmap” which proposed to construct a Dogecoin “group staking” model that resembled PoS.

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“Such a model would enable all Dogecoin customers to stake their DOGE and get further tokens for supporting the community,” the Dogecoin Basis stated.

Nevertheless, little progress has been made since then, because it nonetheless seems to be in “proposal” standing in response to the Dogecoin web site.

DOGE is currently priced at $0.06 on the time of writing.