Dogecoin was created by Jackson Palmer, a group product manager at Adobe, and Billy Markus, a software engineer at IBM, "without much real thought," according to reporting by Motherboard.
As Palmer told Motherboard's Patrick McGuire, “one night after work, I sat down with a beer, I had too much time on my hands, and I bought Dogecoin.com."
Markus stepped in to help make Dogecoin an actual currency.
The name of the coin is an homage to the popular internet meme known as Doge, which became popular in 2013 and features the face of a dog with comic sans texts in the background. Today, the coin is one of the largest alternative cryptocurrencies on the market.
Price: $.002183
Rank: 35
Volume (last 24 hours): $10,408,300
Marketcap: $242,132,855 (50,151 BTC)
Circulation: 110,894,618,419 DOGE
Total Supply: No data