The Dog Who Became the World's Most Famous — Where Did Her Fortune Go?

At 7:50 on a Friday morning in May 2024, an old Shiba Inu died at home in Sakura, a city east of Tokyo, while the woman who had adopted her stroked her fur. The same day, the news crossed oceans. A cryptocurrency posted a tribute to her. Strangers around the world reshared a single photograph of her, taken 14 years earlier. Almost none of them had ever met her. Most had never known her real name.