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Dogecoin began as a joke and somehow became one of the most recognized cryptocurrencies in the world. It was launched in 2013 by software programmers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, who based it on the then-viral Shiba Inu “doge” meme and intentionally designed it as a tongue-in-cheek, sarcastic jab at the already-heated Bitcoin speculation.
What they didn’t expect was that people would actually use it, keep it, and eventually drive its market capitalization into the tens of billions of dollars.
Dogecoin has no supply cap; new coins are constantly being made. It is an inflationary design that the developers never intended to support meaningful long-term value storage. Its price has been influenced much more by social media sentiment and celebrity support than by fundamentals.
Example: In early 2021, a surge of retail euphoria, greatly enhanced by Elon Musk’s tweets, propelled Dogecoin up over 12,000% from its January price to a peak in May. It then surrendered most of those gains in a pattern that suggested less about the currency itself and more about what happens when meme energy meets speculative markets.
