Dogecoin (DOGE) started off on 06/12/2013 as a lighthearted spin-off of Litecoin, created by IBM developer Billy Markus in Portland and Adobe product manager Jackson Palmer in Sydney. Sporting the famous Shiba Inu dog, it was a meme coin that nobody took seriously—until it smashed through roughly KSh 11,050,500,000,000 of market cap by May 2021. Sasa, Dogecoin’s proof-of-work uses script technology to secure its network and keep transactions rolling. While Jackson Palmer wanted to poke fun at cryptocurrency, Billy Markus seized the buzz to build what Dogecoin is today—one of the most playful names in the crypto world.