{"id":35707,"date":"2021-02-02T10:01:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T08:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35707"},"modified":"2025-08-29T02:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:37:45","slug":"kiss-bassist-gene-simmons-invests-in-dogecoin-and-xrp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/kiss-bassist-gene-simmons-invests-in-dogecoin-and-xrp\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiss Bassist Gene Simmons Invests in Dogecoin and XRP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The musician and Kiss bassist Gene Simmons spoke about his investments in cryptocurrencies amid the rise in Dogecoin (DOGE) and XRP.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Not recommending any of these to anyone. But yes, I also bought Dogecoin, XRP and others. Make of it what you will.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gene Simmons (@genesimmons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/genesimmons\/status\/1356111451878993922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00abI\u2019m not recommending any of this to anyone. But yes, I bought Dogecoin, XRP and other crypto assets,\u00bb wrote Simmons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Opinions in the community were divided. Some backed the Kiss member, while others urged him to choose cryptocurrencies wisely.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Choose wisely. No of these pump and dump coins are in the top 10 at the end of they year.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FoRkZDdUil\">https:\/\/t.co\/FoRkZDdUil<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt \u2022 \u20bfitcoin \ud83c\udf10 (@Matt__Bitcoin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Matt__Bitcoin\/status\/1356116625963905024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The rock musician announced his investments on February 1, when Ripple token <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/xrp-token-rises-47-to-reclaim-third-place-by-market-capitalization\">grew by 47%<\/a> and returned to third place by market capitalization. After reaching the $0.75 mark, the XRP price <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/xrp-price-slips-below-0-45-after-reaching-0-75\">fell below $0.45<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of writing, the token is trading at around $0.37. It ranks fourth in market capitalization with a figure of $17 billion.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123674\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123674\" class=\"size-large wp-image-123674\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-410-1024x196.png\" alt=\"Kiss band member invests in Dogecoin and XRP\" width=\"1024\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-410-1024x196.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-410-300x57.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-410-768x147.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-410.png 1289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-123674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CoinGecko<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On January 29, DOGE&#8217;s market value over the day <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/dogecoin-enters-the-top-10-cryptocurrencies-by-market-capitalization\">rose by 470%<\/a> and hit a new all-time high at $0.078. The current DOGE price is $0.034.<\/p>\n<p>The pump of the coin was urged by the Reddit community r\/SatoshiStreetBets. It calls itself the crypto analogue of the r\/WallStreetBets subreddit, whose participants sparked <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/skybridge-capital-chief-calls-gamestop-stock-pump-a-positive-sign-for-bitcoin\">a rapid rise in GameStop stock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, adult-film star Mia Khalifa <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/porn-star-mia-khalifa-invested-in-dogecoin-amid-coin-rally\">bought DOGE<\/a> amid the coin&#8217;s rally.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kiss bassist Gene Simmons spoke about his investments in cryptocurrencies amid the rise in Dogecoin (DOGE) and XRP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[99,52,112],"class_list":["post-35707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-dogecoin","tag-investments","tag-ripple"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35709,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35707\/revisions\/35709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}