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Some Australians have made a fortune on Dogecoin, but they say it’s not all about the money – ABC News
Some Australians bought the cryptocurrency early and made a killing — and others can’t find where they hid their wallets. Here are their stories.
Seven years ago, when today’s king’s ransom of Dogecoin could barely pay for a bottle of kombucha, a PhD student in Melbourne saw an opportunity.
“To fellow Australian Shibes,” he posted on Reddit (a Shibe is someone interested in Dogecoin, or Doge) under the username FruitAndNutDelight.
“We have a direct Australian dollar to Doge exchange.”
That anonymous user was Regan Gallagher, and the exchange he set up in 2014 is responsible for distributing to Australians a volume of the cryptocurrency he…
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