Today’s NYT Daily podcast features Dogecoin, a.k.a., Shiba Inu Coin. Shiba Inu is a hunting dog popular in Japan. Many cryptocurrency make (probably fake) connections to Japan or Japanese names, not to mention “Satoshi” in bitcoin.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/podcasts/the-daily/dogecoin-cryptocurrency-bitcoin.html