The DogeCoin was created in 2013 by Jackson Palmer, a product manager at the office of Adobe Inc in Sydney, Australia. It was created to satirise the hype surrounding digital currencies, but after gaining much feedback on social media, Jackson Plamer bought the domain dogecoin.com. After a while, Billy Markus, a software developer, discovered Dogecoin and wanted to build the software behind an actual Dogecoin based its code on Litecoin. The DogeCoin uses Litecoin’s scrypt technology and is a Proof-of-Work coin.
As Billy Markus created DogeCoin for a joke and sold his entire position in 2015, in 2021, the digital coin surpassed a $75B (USD) market capitalisation. Since then, Dogecoin has fallen significantly, but while it is down over 50%, DogeCoin cryptocurrency still has a multi-billion dollar market cap.
In 2021, SpaceX founder Elon Musk ran a poll on social media asking if Tesla should accept Dogecoin as a form of payment. Later in October, AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. announced that it would accept DogeCoin for digital gift card purchases. In the same period, DogecCoin ranked 10th with a $31.9B (USD) market capitalisation, higher than a year prior of a $339M market cap.