HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu
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| ticker | BITCOIN |
|---|---|
| blockchain | Ethereum |
| launched | May 2023 |
| peak market cap | about 370 million dollars (October 2024) |
HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu is an absurdist Ethereum meme coin launched in May 2023 that trades under the ticker BITCOIN, peaking at a market capitalization of about 370 million dollars in October 2024.
HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu is a meme coin on Ethereum that deliberately trades under the ticker BITCOIN. Launched in May 2023 during the frenzy that followed Pepe, it is the definitive absurdist meme coin, a token whose entire concept is the collision between the most ridiculous possible name and the most famous ticker in finance.
Origin
The name comes from a 2021 joke that circulated on Crypto Twitter mocking meme coin naming conventions, which strung together Harry Potter, Barack Obama, Sonic the Hedgehog, the number 10, and the Inu suffix common to dog coins. In May 2023 anonymous developers deployed the joke as a real Ethereum token with a supply of one billion, zero transaction taxes, renounced ownership, and locked liquidity, and assigned it the ticker BITCOIN so that price sites and exchange tickers would display sentences like "BITCOIN is up 40 percent today." Its surreal wizard Obama Sonic artwork became a self sustaining meme.
Market history
The token went viral in the summer of 2023 as traders embraced the bit, and it survived where most joke coins of that season died. During the late 2024 meme coin bull market it reached an all time high of about 0.37 dollars on October 12, 2024, which put its market capitalization at roughly 370 million dollars per CoinGecko. It spawned imitators on other chains, including BNB Chain and Base versions and a HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu 2.0. By August 2026 the original Ethereum token's market capitalization had fallen to about 13 million dollars, roughly 97 percent below the peak.
Cultural impact
HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu turned ticker squatting into performance art and forced data aggregators, exchanges, and journalists to print its full name, which was the point. It is cited as the purest expression of the 2023 shitcoin renaissance, where irony itself was the product, and it directly prefigured the chaotic naming culture of pump.fun and the trenches, where a name that breaks a website is a feature. Alongside Pepe it marks the moment meme coins stopped pretending to be anything else.