Buying A Porsche With Dogecoin And Shiba Inu Is Now Possible

A Baltimore-based Porsche dealership now accepts payments in Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) and Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB).

What Happened: Porsche Towson partnered with cryptocurrency payments processor BitPay to enable cryptocurrency payments.

In an announcement on Twitter, BitPay said DOGE and SHIB could be used as payment for vehicle purchases, in addition to Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). Porsche is owned by German automaker Volkswagen AG (OTC:VWAGY). 

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Tesla doesn’t directly accept any cryptocurrency for vehicle purchases, given the environmental concerns around mining digital coins. The company has included DOGE as a payment option for merchandise on its website.

Price Action: According to data from Benzinga Pro, DOGE was trading at $0.14, up 1.09% over the past 24 hours. SHIB was trading at $0.00002521, up 0.62% over the same period.

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