狗狗币不是开玩笑。企业正在使用 Memecoin 来销售披萨、鸡翅，甚至特斯拉商品。

该代币在希望接受加密货币进行现实购买的企业中出奇地受欢迎。

When Aaron McCann, co-founder of Williamsburg Pizza in the Williamsburg neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, decided he wanted to start accepting cryptocurrency at his pizzeria, he quickly realized that none of the existing payment processors worked for his needs.

当纽约布鲁克林区威廉斯堡附近威廉斯堡披萨店的联合创始人亚伦·麦肯 (Aaron McCann) 决定开始在他的披萨店接受加密货币时，他很快意识到现有的支付处理器都无法满足他的需求。

So he built his own.

所以他建立了自己的。

McCann, a self-described crypto enthusiast, had been trying to figure out how to accept cryptocurrency at Williamsburg Pizza for six years. But the high transaction costs and slow speeds of Bitcoin and Ethereum made them impractical for everyday purchases like a slice of pizza.

麦肯自称是一名加密货币爱好者，六年来他一直在试图弄清楚如何在威廉斯堡披萨店接受加密货币。但比特币和以太坊的高交易成本和慢速度使得它们对于像一片披萨这样的日常购买来说不切实际。

“The transaction times are too slow and the fees are too high,” McCann told Bloomberg. “Dogecoin is the only proof-of-work cryptocurrency with transaction times fast enough and fees low enough to be practical for merchants like myself.”

“交易时间太慢，费用太高，”麦肯告诉彭博社。 “狗狗币是唯一一种工作量证明的加密货币，其交易时间足够快，费用足够低，对于像我这样的商人来说是实用的。”

McCann's solution was DogeExpress, a payment processor specifically for Dogecoin, the memecoin repped by a picture of a Shiba Inu dog. It's a surprising choice for a payment method, considering that Dogecoin was quite literally meant to be a joke when it was created in 2013.

麦肯的解决方案是 DogeExpress，这是一款专门针对 Dogecoin 的支付处理器，Dogecoin 是一种以柴犬图片为代表的模因币。考虑到狗狗币在 2013 年创建时实际上就是一个笑话，所以选择这种支付方式是一个令人惊讶的选择。

But 11 years into its existence, a punchline is emerging that no one expected: Businesses looking to accept crypto for real-world purchases are finding Dogecoin to be surprisingly useful.

但在它诞生 11 年后，一个出人意料的笑点出现了：希望接受加密货币进行现实购买的企业发现狗狗币出奇地有用。

That's largely because payments on the memecoin's network are much faster and cost way less than many other cryptocurrencies. While transaction costs vary, the average fee is currently around 0.07 Dogecoin, or less than a penny, whereas using Bitcoin costs the equivalent of about 79 cents, according to BitInfoCharts.

这主要是因为模因币网络上的支付速度比许多其他加密货币要快得多，而且成本要低得多。根据 BitInfoCharts 的数据，虽然交易成本各不相同，但目前的平均费用约为 0.07 狗狗币，即不到一美分，而使用比特币的费用约为 79 美分。

“It’s a small, but growing part of our revenue,” McCann said of Dogecoin payments, which only make up about 1% of gross sales at Williamsburg Pizza.

麦肯在谈到狗狗币支付时表示：“这是我们收入的一小部分，但在不断增长。”狗狗币支付仅占威廉斯堡披萨总销售额的 1% 左右。

McCann is now trying to expand what is still very much a niche use of the token, since use of all cryptocurrencies in payments remains somewhat rare. After rolling out DogeExpress at Williamsburg Pizza more than two months ago, he has since rolled it out at five retailers, with eleven others in the early stages of onboarding.

麦肯现在正在尝试扩大代币的小众用途，因为在支付中使用所有加密货币仍然有些罕见。两个多月前在 Williamsburg Pizza 推出 DogeExpress 后，他又在 5 家零售商推出了该服务，另外 11 家零售商正处于入职的早期阶段。

Another surprising use for Dogecoin is in remittances. Cash payments from relatives living abroad are traditionally sent through international banks or financial retail businesses, but those often include transaction fees as high as 7%. And Dogecoin transactions, even across borders, typically take only about one minute – much faster than the average Bitcoin transaction times, which can range from 10 minutes to an hour. The most popular exchanges used to send Dogecoin are Binance and Coinbase, according to data provider CoinMarketCap.com.

狗狗币的另一个令人惊讶的用途是汇款。居住在国外的亲属的现金支付传统上是通过国际银行或金融零售企业发送的，但这些通常包括高达 7% 的交易费。狗狗币交易，即使是跨境交易，通常也只需要大约一分钟——比比特币的平均交易时间（从 10 分钟到一个小时不等）要快得多。根据数据提供商 CoinMarketCap.com 的数据，用于发送狗狗币的最受欢迎的交易所是 Binance 和 Coinbase。

Of course, the tongue-in-cheek nature of Dogecoin that inspired countless memes adds to its appeal as well. Even if you're not a cryptocurrency enthusiast, you've probably heard about Dogecoin.

当然，狗狗币的半开玩笑性质激发了无数表情包，也增加了它的吸引力。即使您不是加密货币爱好者，您也可能听说过狗狗币。

Its notable endorsers include celebrities like rappers Snoop Dogg and Lil Yachty, and even Mark Cuban, a billionaire on the opposite end of the political spectrum from Musk, his frequent sparring partner on X. The Dallas Mavericks basketball team started accepting Dogecoin as payment for merchandise and tickets in 2021, though usage so far has been modest: Cuban estimates that the Mavericks have accepted around 25,000 Dogecoin so far.

它的著名代言人包括说唱歌手 Snoop Dogg 和 Lil Yachty 等名人，甚至还有马克·库班 (Mark Cuban)，一位与马斯克政治立场相反的亿万富翁，他经常在 X 节目中陪练。达拉斯小牛队篮球队开始接受狗狗币作为商品支付方式和 2021 年的门票，尽管到目前为止使用量不大：库班估计小牛队到目前为止已经接受了大约 25,000 枚狗狗币。

“It's an inexpensive way to become part of an incredibly vibrant online community,” Cuban told Bloomberg.

“这是一种成为充满活力的在线社区一部分的廉价方式，”库班告诉彭博社。

The virality of Dogecoin makes the cryptocurrency an effective marketing tool for businesses, according to McCann. That helps it stand out from comparable alternatives such as Litecoin that also allow for fast and cheap transactions.

麦肯表示，狗狗币的病毒式传播使这种加密货币成为企业有效的营销工具。这有助于它从莱特币等同类替代品中脱颖而出，因为莱特币也允许快速且廉价的交易。

Litecoin is the most-used cryptocurrency for transactions made using the payments app BitPay, accounting for a 38% share in August, according to the company's website. Dogecoin ranked fifth, ahead of larger tokens like XRP and USDC. Yet Litecoin's current market cap sits at less than $5 billion, compared with Dogecoin's $16 billion, which ranks it as the eighth-biggest cryptocurrency, according to CoinMarketCap.com.

据该公司网站称，莱特币是使用支付应用程序 BitPay 进行交易时最常用的加密货币，8 月份占 38% 的份额。狗狗币排名第五，领先于 XRP 和 USDC 等较大代币。然而，根据 CoinMarketCap.com 的数据，莱特币目前的市值还不到 50 亿美元，而狗狗币的市值为 160 亿美元，后者将其列为第八大加密货币。

Like digital assets such Bitcoin and Ethereum, Dogecoin is a peer-to-peer currency that uses blockchain technology to verify transactions. And like Bitcoin, it's a “proof of work” token, meaning so-called miners compete to solve complex mathematical puzzles in order to validate transactions and earn compensation paid in crypto.

与比特币和以太坊等数字资产一样，狗狗币是一种点对点货币，使用区块链技术来验证交易。与比特币一样，它是一种“工作证明”代币，这意味着所谓的矿工竞相解决复杂的数学难题，以验证交易并赚取以加密货币支付的补偿。

For crypto diehards, there are some disadvantages to the memecoin compared with the original cryptocurrency. Dogecoin is considered to be less secure than Bitcoin. And unlike Bitcoin, which was designed to have a limited supply, there is no cap on the amount of Dogecoin in circulation, meaning the case for buying and holding it over the long term is weaker. Its value is also prone to wider swings, with a 260-day historical volatility that is almost twice that of Bitcoin's. It traded for about 6 cents a year ago, as high as 22 cents in March, and goes for about 11 cents today.

对于加密顽固分子来说，memecoin 与原始加密货币相比存在一些缺点。狗狗币被认为不如比特币安全。与比特币的设计供应量有限不同，狗狗币的流通量没有上限，这意味着长期购买和持有它的理由较弱。其价值也容易出现更大的波动，260 天的历史波动率几乎是比特币的两倍。一年前的交易价格约为 6 美分，3 月份高达 22 美分，而今天的交易价格约为 11 美分。

“Right-tailed”

“右尾”

Yet Dogecoin has a multiyear

然而狗狗币有多年的历史