Which NBA team will start accepting dogecoin?

Dogecoin may have started out as a joke, but lately people have started taking it seriously. Just last month, Elon Musk caused its price to jump by 25 percent just by tweeting one word alongside an image of the cryptocurrency’s Shiba Inu mascot on the moon. And on Monday, CoinFlip, a bitcoin ATM company with 1,800 locations throughout the country, announced that customers would now be able to buy dogecoin with cash at its locations.

And now it looks like the Dallas Mavericks also are getting on the dogecoin bandwagon, too. On Thursday, the basketball team’s owner, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban, confirmed that the team will begin accepting dogecoin payments for tickets and merchandise sales. This is the second cryptocurrency that the team accepts; bitcoin payments have been accepted since May 2019. The payments will be processed through cryptocurrency payment processor BitPay.

When asked why the team made the decision to start accepting dogecoin, Cuban said it was “because we can!” He added that “sometimes in business, you have to do things that are fun.”