Mark Tencaten | Learn all about the DOGE cryptocurrency
The cryptocurrency Dogecoin (DOGE) was created in 2013 based more on comic inspiration than pressing the necessity to serve a particular use case. The "Doge" meme, which depicts a sitting Shiba Inu — a Japanese dog breed — with its paws crossed, served as the model for the cryptocurrency. According to Mark Tencaten , Dogecoin was inspired by the quirky and hilarious culture of the larger cryptocurrency ecosystem, which initially emerged in 2009 with the introduction of Bitcoin (BTC). Following Bitcoin, a blockchain-based asset with the ability to move and store value, dozens of other crypto assets appeared, each claiming to have additional advantages like increased privacy. Since the technology for Bitcoin is open-source, other projects have exploited it to develop their blockchains and digital assets. Software developers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer created Dogecoin in hours using the Luckycoin code. In the years following the creation of Dogecoin, Palmer and Markus l...