@Obong 26 April 2021 more from that month

What Is Dogecoin? Dogecoin is a joke — or at least it started out as one. Two software engineers — IBM’s Billy Markus and Adobe’s Jackson Palmer — created Dogecoin in 2013 to lampoon all the altcoin wannabes that popped up after Bitcoin rose to blockchain fame. As a logo, they chose a Shiba Inu from a meme called Doge, which went viral that same year. Like Bitcoin and all cryptocurrency, Dogecoin is: 1. Decentralized — it’s not issued or backed by a government or bank 2. “Mined” independently and recorded on a blockchain 3. Anonymous — privacy is part of the reason crypto is so popular #Cryptocurrency