{"id":247681,"date":"2021-05-12T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/goldman-sachs-exec-reportedly-quits-job-after-making-dogecoin-fortune\/"},"modified":"2021-05-12T14:57:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:57:10","slug":"goldman-sachs-exec-reportedly-quits-job-after-making-dogecoin-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/goldman-sachs-exec-reportedly-quits-job-after-making-dogecoin-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"# Goldman Sachs exec reportedly quits job after making Dogecoin fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Goldman Sachs exec reportedly quits job after making Dogecoin fortune <\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-5a136f3a>A senior manager at banking giant Goldman Sachs in London has reportedly left the company after making a fortune on a meme-based cryptocurrency, Dogecoin (DOGE).<\/p>\n<p>Aziz McMahon, a former managing director and head of emerging market sales at Goldman Sachs, had resigned from the investment bank, allegedly after netting major gains from his DOGE holdings, The Guardian <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/11\/goldman-sachs-executive-quits-after-making-millions-from-dogecoin\">reports<\/a> Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.efinancialcareers.com\/news\/2021\/05\/goldman-sachs-london-md-dogecoin\">reports<\/a> did not specify exactly how much money McMahon made from his Dogecoin holdings, sources claimed that it was a substantial sum, pointing out that DOGE rallied over 1,000% in value this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the finance veteran was investing in crypto using a personal account and was not involved in trading cryptocurrencies for Goldman Sachs.<\/p>\n<p>McMahon did not im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely respond to Cointelegraph\u2019s request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>Dogecoin has been repeatedly recording major milestones recently, outs<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ping the largest cryptocurrency\u00a0Bitcoin (BTC) in the number of related internet search queries. Since the beginning of 2021, Dogecoin has emerged as the fastest-growing digital currency, posting up to 13,500% growth year-to-date, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/currencies\/dogecoin\/\">surging<\/a> from just $0.005 to an all-time high of $0.68 on May 7, according to data from CoinMarketCap.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2021-05\/8ce8c641-2738-4ebd-92e1-508397b6eb82.png\"><figcaption style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Dogecoin price chart year-to-date. Source: CoinMarketCap<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Launched back in 2013 by IBM software engineer Billy Markus and Adobe engineer Jackson Palmer, Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency based on the popular \u201cDoge\u201d meme featuring a Shiba Inu and was created as a joke.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another dog-based cryptocurrency has been surging recently. After breaking new all-time highs yesterday, Dogecoin imitator Shiba Inu (SHIB) subsequently saw a 13% slump to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/context.reverso.net\/%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4\/%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9\/\">trade<\/a> at $0.000028 at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"markets_outlook\"><\/template><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Aziz McMahon, a former managing director and head of emerging market sales at Goldman Sachs, had resigned from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDUvMmVhNmMwNTItZGJmMy00NzhiLTgxNGItNDgxNDg1MDE2ZDkxLmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74867,74863,86883,71939,117,70790,75407],"class_list":["post-247681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-altcoin","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-dogecoin","tag-banks","tag-business","tag-goldman-sachs","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}