Which meme coin was originally created as a satire of the cryptocurrency hype cycle, using a Shiba Inu dog from a 2013 internet meme to make a point about speculative mania? The answer is Dogecoin. Launched on December 6, 2013 by software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, Dogecoin started as a joke. Markus and Palmer never intended it to compete with Bitcoin or Ethereum. In fact, they deliberately set the block reward high and removed a fixed supply cap to signal that this was not a serious store of value. Within weeks, the Dogecoin community formed tipping bots and charity drives - funding the Jamaican bobsled team and sponsoring a NASCAR driver. The coin's origin story is a case study in how community sentiment can drive network adoption without any underlying technological innovation or promised returns. Today, Dogecoin remains one of the most traded meme coins by volume, but its origin is still rooted in a 2013 joke. No roadmap. No whitepaper. Just a dog and a community.

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