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You only know that Dogecoin has skyrocketed, but what about the story behind Dogecoin?

In a market that lacks confidence in memes, Dogecoin needs to be mentioned again. In 2013, Jackson Palmer from Australia saw the wildly popular Shiba Inu Doge meme online and casually said on Twitter, "Why not actually create a coin for fun?"

Then a programmer from IBM named Billy Markus took up the challenge and, almost using existing code, built Dogecoin in just a few hours. It was not created by some deeply thoughtful tech mogul, but rather by two prominent programmers who jokingly created it on a whim.

Their initial idea was quite simple: it was a joke — to laugh at the seriousness of Bitcoin by using a dog’s face. There was no roadmap, no white paper, and no grand ambitions. What happened? This "joke coin" surprisingly survived, with the community engaging more enthusiastically than many serious coins, with red envelopes, charity streams, and a multitude of community activities.

Later, Dogecoin became so popular that its market cap reached tens of billions, and the two founders instead stepped back: some left entirely out of disappointment with the status quo, while one sold all $DOGE to buy a used Honda in 2015.

The most ironic part is: they initially created this coin just for fun, yet it became one of the most popular meme coins globally; and many of those who made the most money were not them, but those later swept up by emotions and consensus.

Isn’t that contrary to the current state of many memes? If you lack confidence in the current BSC chain or SOL chain, I suggest you read my article.