The meme is a word coined by the British biologist, writer and professor at the University of Oxford, Richard Dawkings in his book "The selfish gene", referring to the Greek term "mimema" that was used to indicate what is imitated and that concept was transferred to the internet to describe ideas generally in the form of jokes through phrases, images or videos that become popular through social networks, blog or email, but that in the end must be taken very seriously.
Under this concept, the Dogecoin was born in 2013 with the aim of making fun of bitcoin using as an image a friendly dog of the Japanese breed of Shiba Inu, but apparently the first mocked were its own creators, the Oregon Engineer Billy Markus and the Marketing expert Jackson Palmer, since the coin quickly acquired a significant number of followers that positioned it as one of the main cryptocurrencies, thanks in part to the loyalty of that community of followers.
Using jokes and humor shown on Twitter, the currency was positioned and appreciated and came to create approximately 10 billion dogecoin under the Litecoin platform, although its popularity has now fallen, there is no doubt that it is one of the most serious cryptocurrencies of history.
The Dogecoin continues however; being used as a currency of exchange especially in social networks to give tips and the important thing is that it is a project that has already proven its reliability.
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