Since starting to accept dogecoin as payment for merchandise in March, the Dallas Mavericks organization has seen substantial sales made with the meme-inspired cryptocurrency, according to team owner Mark Cuban. In an effort to continue this push, Cuban announced Thursday that the organization will offer “special pricing” for those paying with dogecoin during the Mavericks’ summer sale.
Though dogecoin was created as a joke and its creators never intended for it to be taken seriously, Cuban says it has a unique use case over other cryptocurrencies.
“It’s a medium that can be used for the acquisition of goods and services,” Cuban tells CNBC Make It. “The community for doge is the strongest when it comes to using it as a medium of exchange.”
In April, Cuban tweeted that dogecoin is the “one coin” that people actually use for transactions, though he has previously said that ether is used as digital currency too.
“Ethereum is a digital version of a currency,” Cuban told Ellen DeGeneres in April. “And then you got dogecoin, which is just fun. But the weird part about it [is that] it went from being a cryptocurrency joke to now becoming something that’s becoming a digital currency.”
Cuban sees bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market value, more as a “digital version of gold” than a currency, he told DeGeneres. That’s because bitcoiners typically hold their stake long-term and view it as an asset that will appreciate.
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