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The famous Japanese rescue dog that helped make a form of cryptocurrency famous, has died.

The dog, named Kabosu, was 18.

Kabusus owner, Atsuko Sato, announced the news in a blog post on May 24.

Kabosu was a Japanese shiba inu dog who rose to fame in 2013.

The dogs face became a meme associated with a cryptocurrency called dogecoin.

Millions of images of the dog were shared on social media at the time.

Eventually, Kabosus smiling face became the image on the digital coin.

Kabosu and her owner, Atsuko Sato, got to visit a statue of Kabosu in a park in Sakura, Japan, in March. (Image credit: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images)

Dogecoin, which is pronounced dOHJ coin, is a form of virtual money called cryptocurrency, which only exists online.

A couple of engineers invented dogecoin in 2013 by mashing together the most popular form of cryptocurrency, called bitcoin, and a meme of Kabosu.

It jumped in value in 2020 after billionaire Elon Musk began tweeting about it.

Musk owns companies like Tesla, SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter).

The influential billionaire has repeatedly promoted the coin.

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With files from Reuters

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