Bitcoin’s price is recovering from its slump induced by Mt. Gox troubles, and that type of upheaval usually takes down the top altcoins that hang on to the top cryptocurrency’s coattail.

But two-month-old dogecoin is in a league of its own. Today, dogecoin’s price is approaching new highs.

On Cryptsy, the South-Florida based exchange, dogecoin has reached an intraday high of 0.00000245 per one bitcoin.

That number may not seem impressive on its own, but consider this: Dogecoin’s market capitalization has gone from $59 million to nearly $79 million in just 10 days, according to BitInfoCharts.com.

Dogecoin is fourth in market cap behind bitcoin, litecoin and peercoin. Dogecoin is No. 1 in transactions over the last 24 hours (more than 111,000) and average transactions per hour (more than 4,600), says BitInfoCharts.

And then there is dogecoin’s rising mainstream popularity, including a first mention by the Wall Street Journal’s BitBeat, which came after much prodding from the proud and close-knit dogecoin community.

“After a raucous party in downtown Manhattan that ended with the Shiba emblem stuck to the Wall Street bull statue, this fan base decided over the weekend to make it their goal to get BitBeat to write about their favorite currency,” read BitBeat’s Monday column, which focused mainly on the Mt. Gox withdrawal freeze and its ripple effects..

But the Wall Street Journal was careful not to heap too much praise and hedge their dogecoin reference a bit.

“Granted, dogecoin has gone from Internet meme to one of the top five alt-coins in a matter of months, and granted there are also some features to it that may even improve upon bitcoin’s system … But it’s worth remembering, too, that in the world of virtual currencies, there is almost no barrier to entry, and the success or failure of a system will depend upon its utility and its supporters.”