Dogecoin (DOGE) is a cryptocurrency that is breaking records now even though it was launched as a joke. The funny background of the coin is inspired by the Japanese breed of dogs Shiba Inu which was previously an internet meme. Dogecoin now has a strong community that continues to attract attention through donations. It is among the favorite coins for the users since the transaction fees are very low at 0.01 US dollars.

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Dogecoin (DOGE) was launched in 2013 in December as a fun currency by the only programmer at that time Billy Markus from Portland Oregon. Shortly after the launch, he was supported by Jackson Palmer who brought domain Dogecoin.com.

In the beginning, it was openly stated that this cryptocurrency is made only for fun. This was very clear once you entered the homepage of the altcoin and the videos for it as well. The homepage of Dogecoin (DOGE) was written in Comic Sans and the videos were made amateur-style. However, the cryptocurrency quickly found many fans on the platforms like Reddit and the amateur-style of the altcoin became its trademark.

On December 19, 2013, Dogecoin increased up to 300 percent in less than 3 hours and only a few days later the cryptocurrency lost about 80 percent of its value again. One of the reasons for this was that the Chinese Bank was no longer allowed to trade with Bitcoin and the miners took advantage of the fact that Dogecoin (DOGE) had little mining difficulty. Just a week later, Dogecoin had its first hack and millions of the coins were stolen from the online wallet DogeWallet. However, the community was strong and launched an appeal for donations. Two months later, the stolen credit was completely replaced for the victims and this was a strong sign that the community is very strong as well.
In February 2014, the first Dogecoin machine was installed in Vancouver and a few months later 2 Bitcoin machines in Tijuana also started supporting Dogecoin.

The cryptocurrency already had a market cap of 60 million US dollars at that time. in 2015, Jackson Palmer withdrew from the project since he didn’t want to be associated with a fun currency with a high market capitalization. In 2018, the cryptocurrency reached a market capitalization of 2 billion USD.

Dogecoin is based on the so-called Luckycoin. The name comes because of the fact that the mining reward is generated randomly for each new block found but Dogecoin abolished the random mining reward and replaced it with a fixed value. Luckycoin is based on Litecoin. Compared to Litecoin, there were a few differences. Litecoin finds a new block every 2.5 minutes and Dogecoin finds one very minute. This allows Dogecoin (DOGE) to process more transactions each second rather than Litecoin.

This is also reflected in the low transaction fees and so far the network has rarely been so full so the transaction fees have risen only to 0.01 USD. DogeCoin relies on the proof-of-work and Scrypt algorithm to mine new blocks and the special thing about it is that it can also be mined by normal computers.

At the beginning, the maximum possible Dogecoin was limited to 100 billion but this limit was later lifted in 2014. There are now more than 115 billion dogecoins in circulation and the number is a subject to inflation since new tokens are distributed to the respective miners for every new block.