Popular Dogecoin wallet MyDoge has published a post on social media platform .
Popular Dogecoin wallet MyDoge has published a post on social media platform .
The story of DOGE, SHIB and several other meme cryptocurrencies began on February 13, 14 years ago.
14th anniversary of Kabosu’s appearance online
@MyDogeOfficial tweeted that the Dogecoin community is celebrating the 14th anniversary of the first appearance on the internet of the iconic Shiba Inu meme dog, Kabosu, after his owner, Atsuko Sato (@kabosumama), uploaded his photos via Facebook with a caption that said “How fun…wow.”
No news has been released about Kabosu since December 2022. At that time, the dog was in a very serious state of health. That year, she also turned 17, outliving the average Shiba Inus; Her average life expectancy is between 10 and 15 years.
As for another viral Shiba Inu dog that was behind internet memes, “Cheems,” it made headlines with sad news. This popular dog passed away at the end of August last year.
In 2013, two software makers, Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, created the meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin. Markus’s role seems more important here, since he was actually the one who created the code for DOGE in a couple of hours at home. For both creators, DOGE was a side project they made to parody Bitcoin. Markus expanded on this joke by choosing the X/Twitter name “Shibetoshi Nakamoto,” which he still uses on social media.
Creators do not make money from Dogecoin
Although Dogecoin’s popularity has increased in recent years largely thanks to Elon Musk and the widespread love of memes spread online, Billy Markus has tweeted several times that not only did he not make a fortune from Dogecoin, but he did not in fact made any money at all. .
Both Markus and Palmer left the project almost immediately after releasing it, without taking it seriously. Now, the meme coin is managed by the Dogecoin Foundation. Palmer is not an active Twitter user and does not comment on DOGE, unlike Markus who keeps an eye on him occasionally.
In a tweet on February 12, he again stated that did not make money with DOGE, while many cryptocurrency traders did. A few days ago, Dogecoin was removed from the top 10 list on CoinMarketCap, while its market capitalization stands at an impressive $11,863,455,340.
