Dogecoin (code: DOGE, symbol: Ɖ and D), is a Litecoin-derived 9% of the 100 billion total dogecoins have been mined.
Overview
Dogecoin was created by programmer and former IBM engineer Billy Markus of Portland, Oregon, who was trying to create his own cryptocurrency in hopes of reaching a broader demographic other than the investors who've flooded into Bitcoin's economy. At the same time, his friend Jackson Palmer, a worker for a marketing department in Sydney, Australia for Adobe Systems, and the original individual who first conceived of the idea for Dogecoin, was encouraged by a stu...