People keep asking this question, so let's do the math out loud. The latest version of "can Shiba Inu reach $1" is making the rounds again and the answer is the same as it's always been: no. Not in the next bull market, not the one after that, probably not in my lifetime.

Shiba Inu trades deep in the fractions of a cent, small enough that most price tickers run out of decimal places. Getting to $1 from here means going up roughly 58,000x. With a supply of about 589 trillion tokens, $1 would put SHIB's market cap somewhere around $589 trillion. There isn't that much wealth on the planet. Global household wealth is measured in the hundreds of trillions of dollars, and one dog coin would be claiming more than all of it, every stock, every house, every everything combined. The entire global economy would have to become a Shiba Inu subsidiary.

And no, token burns don't save the argument. Supply sits around 589 trillion and burns so far have only nibbled at the edges of that number. Burning your way to meaningful scarcity from a starting point that size is like emptying a swimming pool with an eyedropper while someone runs the hose.

Now the part where I come clean about my own history with this stuff, because I don't get to lecture from a clean pedestal. I've held crypto. I still hold a little, a slice of my portfolio small enough that if it went to zero tomorrow my month wouldn't change. I bought a memecoin in 2021, watched it double in three weeks, felt like a genius for exactly eleven days, then watched it drop 80 percent and sat there doing the math on what I'd actually made versus what I'd told my friends I'd made. About $340 in profit and one very humbling spreadsheet.

So I get the pull. Shiba Inu turned a few thousand dollars into millions for a handful of people in 2021, one of the single best returns in financial history. That story is real. But it already happened, and you were probably not in that room. Buying SHIB today hoping for a repeat is buying a lottery ticket and calling it a retirement plan.

A finance writer I spar with regularly thinks I'm too reckless with individual stocks, and we fight about it constantly. On this one he doesn't even argue. He just looks at me. That's how you know it's bad.

If you want crypto exposure, fine, I won't pretend I don't. Keep it to money you can lose without flinching. Keep the boring money in index funds, keep 3 to 6 months of expenses in a high-yield savings account, and if a coin's entire bull case requires a market cap bigger than all the household wealth on Earth, let it go. Your future self has better things to do than hold a bag.