Dogecoin was created as a joke by Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer in late 2013. Billy and Jackson felt that cryptocurrencies were too serious and not fun. So Jackson created the Dogecoin.com website, which was the official portal of Dogecoin for a long time. Then, Billy developed the first 4 versions of Dogecoin on his own.
On December 6, 2013, under the influence of the Doge meme culture that was popular all over the world at that time, Dogecoin was born. It is a very cute cartoon Shiba Inu image without text, which looks full of the dog's thoughts and wisdom.
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This famous meme originated from a photo of a female Japanese Shiba Inu that appeared online in 2010. The dog was adopted from an animal shelter by Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Satō in 2008.
To Billy and Jackson's surprise, Dogecoin was an immediate success and was warmly welcomed on sites such as Reddit, where it was used as a tipping currency. Two weeks after Dogecoin was launched, its daily transaction volume exceeded that of Bitcoin. Less than a month after its launch, the website had more than 1 million visitors!
In 2014, Billy and Jackson withdrew from the development of Dogecoin and a new Dogecoin core development team was formed. This team consists of a core maintainer team, which has been supported by more than 40 contributors over the years and has been developing and maintaining Dogecoin since then.
Despite its origins as a joke, Dogecoin quickly developed a large and passionate cryptocurrency community. This fun and friendly crypto community has been supporting some great causes and charities.
For example, in 2014, the Dogecoin community raised 26.5 million Dogecoins (worth about $30,000 at the time) to support the Jamaican bobsled team to compete in the Sochi Winter Olympics! In March 2014, the Dogecoin community raised over 40 million Dogecoins (worth about $30,000 at the time) to help build clean water wells in Kenya.
Recently, the Dogecoin Foundation partnered with popular YouTubers Mr Beast and Mark Rober on TeamSeas, which aims to raise $30 million to remove 30 million pounds of trash from the ocean.
