In 2013, Dogecoin (DOGE) was developed as a fun alternative to established cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. The Shiba Inu emblem and moniker are based on a meme. Dogecoin is purposely abundant in contrast to Bitcoin, which was created to be scarce. Its supply is unlimited, and 10,000 new coins are mined every minute.
For the most of its existence, Dogecoin was viewed as a funny “memecoin” that was adored by its community, but with just marginal value. That all changed in 2021: even though each individual coin is only worth a few cents (see the current price), Dogecoin is now among the top ten most valuable cryptocurrencies by market cap, with a total value that has exceeded $50 billion.

Dogecoin (pronounced “dohj coin”) was developed as a humorous, low-stakes alternative to Bitcoin; abundance is a major component of the concept. Doge attracted a passionate online community as soon as it was introduced in late 2013; this community has used DOGE for everything from paying strangers for insightful Reddit comments to funding the Jamaican bobsled team’s trip to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Why does Dogecoin have value?
The market values DOGE similarly to any other asset based on supply and demand. Given the massive and expanding supply, a tremendous increase in demand was required to push prices as high as they have recently.

Prices increased by around 7,000 percent in the first quarter of 2021 as a result of retail investors on Reddit (including the wallstreetbets subreddit that gave rise to the “memestock” craze), the wider crypto boom, and months of tweets from Tesla founder Elon Musk that appeared to be made in jest, culminating in his appearance on Saturday Night Live in May 2021.

In 2021, rapidly rising DOGE prices received a lot of media attention (as well as social media posts), which briefly started a cycle that attracted new investors and raised prices even higher. FOMO (or “fear of missing out”) attracts a flood of new traders whenever an asset experiences such astronomical increases. DOGE is still a very volatile cryptocurrency, thus there is no way to predict whether its value will rise or fall in the future.

From where did Dogecoin originate?
Software developers Billy Marcus and Jackson Palmer, pals from Reddit who had never met in person, created Dogecoin as a prank in late 2013. They blended two then-currently-trending topics in their online community: the burgeoning digital currency Bitcoin and a meme depicting a Shiba Inu and the misspelled word “dog.”

To the astonishment of its inventors, Dogecoin became popular almost right once, with dogecoin.com having over a million visitors in its first month. Dogecoin’s status as a full-fledged cryptocurrency with its own blockchain and a mining method akin to Litecoin’s contributed to its comedic appeal. Due to its historically cheap prices (for long of its existence, DOGE could be purchased for pennies or less) and abundance, it has recently drawn the attention of investors anticipating that its value will increase.

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