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Dogecoin

You might remember it as the meme coin

This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.

2013·The social era

A joke currency built on a dog photograph that people then took seriously enough to be worth billions.

At a glanceThe facts

Remembered as
the meme coin
Spread in
2013
Format
Phenomenon
Era
The social era
Made by
Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer
Taken from
Named after the Doge meme, with the dog Kabosu as its logo
Origin
No single original
Available
Not held by ViralWorld

What this wasThe story

Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer launched Dogecoin on 6 December 2013 to mock cryptocurrency speculation, using Kabosu the shiba inu from the doge meme as its face. A million people visited the site in the first month. The joke funded the Jamaican bobsled team, wells in Kenya and a NASCAR car, and by May 2021 the parody was notionally worth more than eighty-five billion dollars.

Why it matteredWhat changed

A currency invented to make fun of cryptocurrency speculation was worth more than eighty-five billion dollars seven and a half years later.

TimelineIn order

  1. Made

    The currency is launched, as a joke.1

  2. Later

    Its users begin raising 50,000 dollars for the Jamaican bobsleigh team.1

  3. Later

    They raise about 55,000 dollars to sponsor a NASCAR driver.1

  4. Picked up

    Elon Musk tweets about it for the first time.1

  5. Record

    Its total value passes 85 billion dollars.1

  6. Later

    The price falls by as much as 29.5 per cent while Musk is presenting Saturday Night Live.1

Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later · the upload that made its maker known

Where it came fromWhat we know

This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.

Created by Billy Markus. Established by research, not by who posted the copy shown here.

What this was built on, each one a record of its own.

More from the social eraMore of the archive

SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — Dogecoin

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