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Rescue pup to meme star: the real-life Dogecoin dog

Cryptocurrency

HER fluffy face now frail, Kabosu still flashes the enigmatic smile that made her the go-to meme dog for millennials and inspired a $23 billion (R433bn) cryptocurrency beloved by Elon Musk.

She’s best known as the logo of Dogecoin, but to Atsuko Sato, Kabosu is the elderly former rescue puppy who accompanies her every day to work at a kindergarten.

“It felt so strange” to discover her dog was an internet celebrity, Sato said in Sakura, where Tokyo’s eastern sprawl gives way to fields of rice.

In 2010, two years

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