It goes on to state that Dogecoin, a popular cryptocurrency created as a meme, is already accepted and used “by many small business owners, charity organizations, and entrepreneurs around the world as a means to buy and sell goods and services.”
The petition also includes a link to the Dogecoin website, where users can go to invest in the cryptocurrency.
Newsweek reported on April 13 that the petition had received 130,000 signatures, which indicates that more than 70,000 people have signed it in the past two weeks.
The petition reaching more than 200,000 signatures comes as Dogecoin has continued to gain popularity. The price of the cryptocurrency reached an all-time high of $0.41 earlier this month, according to data from CoinDesk. As of publication time, Dogecoin was trading at around $0.27 and has a market cap of around $35.6 billion.
As the petition notes, many companies around the globe have started accepting Dogecoin as a form of payment.
In March, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban announced that they are now accepting Dogecoin as a form of payment for tickets and merchandise.
“The @dallasmavs have done more than 20,000 #Dogecoin in transactions, making us the LARGEST #DOGECOIN MERCHANT IN THE WORLD ! We thank all of you and can only say that if we sell another 6,556,000,000 #DOGECOIN worth of Mavs merch, #dogecoin will DEFINITELY HIT $1 !!!,” Cuban tweeted on March 6.
On April 13, Cuban provided an update on Twitter, writing that the “Mavs sales in @dogecoin have increased 550pct over the past month. We have now sold more than 122k Doge in merchandise !”
According to the Dogecoin website, other companies that accept the cryptocurrency as a form of payment include Strange Donuts, BitBurgers, AllGamer, Meltdown Comics, Vapeur Canada, Threaded Concepts and many others. The full list of companies that accept Dogecoin can be found here.
