{"id":16467,"date":"2024-11-13T15:14:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16467"},"modified":"2024-11-13T16:25:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:25:33","slug":"cryptocurrencys-latest-disruption-a-dog-popularity-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16467","title":{"rendered":"Cryptocurrency\u2019s Latest Disruption: A Dog Popularity Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Did a fun event involving cute dogs turn into a pump-and-dump scheme?<\/p>\n

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It sounds like a fun, friendly online competition. Some cute dogs are chosen, and the public votes for their favorites. At the end, one dog claims the top prize.<\/p>\n

So how did the Honorary NYC Dog Mayor Election of 2024 turn into a morass of ballot stuffing, vituperation and \u2014 ugh \u2014 cryptocurrency-influenced chicanery?<\/p>\n

The early rounds of the 16-dog bracket<\/a> seemed normal: Mello the Samoyed beat Puccini the Yorkiepoo. Mr. Tobi the silky terrier beat Louie the French bulldog.<\/p>\n

But something was up with Bertram the Pomeranian. He was a likely favorite on his own, given his nearly 400,000 Instagram followers<\/a>, and his social media moment<\/a> posing as an uncanny Paddington Bear look-alike.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As the competition progressed, however, it seemed that somebody had created a cryptocurrency named after Bertram and begun pushing his candidacy. And some of the coin\u2019s enthusiasts were sure that the better Bertram did in the contest, the more the price of his eponymous currency would rise.<\/p>\n

Another strong contender was Enzo the Shih Tzu, owned by Olivia Caputo, a full-time influencer. (Enzo has almost 100,000 Instagram followers<\/a> and, like the other entrants, was recruited for the competition.)<\/p>\n

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Did a fun event involving cute dogs turn into a pump-and-dump scheme?It sounds like a fun, friendly online competition. Some cute dogs are chosen, and the public votes for their favorites. At the end, one dog claims the top prize.So how did the Honorary NYC Dog Mayor Election of 2024 turn into a morass of ballot stuffing, vituperation and \u2014 ugh \u2014 cryptocurrency-influenced chicanery?The early rounds of the 16-dog bracket seemed normal: Mello the Samoyed beat Puccini the Yorkiepoo. Mr. Tobi the silky terrier beat Louie the French bulldog.But something was up with Bertram the Pomeranian. He was a likely favorite on his own, given his nearly 400,000 Instagram followers, and his social media moment posing as an uncanny Paddington Bear look-alike.As the competition progressed, however, it seemed that somebody had created a cryptocurrency named after Bertram and begun pushing his candidacy. And some of the coin\u2019s enthusiasts were sure that the better Bertram did in the contest, the more the price of his eponymous currency would rise.Another strong contender was Enzo the Shih Tzu, owned by Olivia Caputo, a full-time influencer. (Enzo has almost 100,000 Instagram followers and, like the other entrants, was recruited for the competition.)We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16469,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16470,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16467\/revisions\/16470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}