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Dogecoin has one of the most unusual origin stories in crypto — because it was never meant to be serious.
In late 2013, as crypto grew increasingly technical and self-important, engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer decided to do the opposite. They wanted something fun, something that reminded people tech could still feel human.
Palmer launched Dogecoin.com, branding it around the iconic Doge meme, while Markus built the protocol himself, handling the first four releases solo. On December 6, 2013, Dogecoin officially launched — featuring a Shiba Inu, Comic Sans text, and humor at its core.

The meme came from Kabosu, a Japanese rescue dog adopted in 2008. What followed surprised everyone.

🚀 From Joke to Movement

Dogecoin exploded on Reddit, becoming a tipping currency for humor, kindness, and helpful posts — not debates or whitepapers.
📊 Within 2 weeks: Dogecoin processed more daily transactions than Bitcoin
🌐 Within 1 month: Over 1 million unique visitors
In 2014, both founders stepped away. Dogecoin didn’t die — it decentralized.
A Dogecoin Core Development Team formed, with dozens of contributors maintaining the network over the years. No CEO. No hype roadmap. Just community-driven survival.

❤️ A Community That Actually Acts

Dogecoin’s culture stayed playful — but proved powerful:
• 🛷 26.5M DOGE raised to send the Jamaican bobsled team to the Olympics
• 💧 40M+ DOGE funded clean water wells in Kenya
• 🌊 Partnered with MrBeast & Mark Rober on #TeamSeas, helping remove 30M lbs of ocean trash
These weren’t price-driven stunts. They became part of Dogecoin’s identity.

🧠 What Dogecoin Represents Today

Dogecoin is proof that meaningful technology doesn’t always start with grand ambition. Sometimes it starts as a joke — and survives because people believe in the culture behind it.
Fast. Simple. Recognizable. Community-powered.
🔥 Many still believe $DOGE > $1 isn’t a meme — it’s a long-term sentiment bet on culture, adoption, and survivability.
#DOGE #CryptoHistory #memecoin #CommunityPower #Altcoins

Это не инвестиционные советы.
Это истории о том, как крипта стала частью мифологии XXI века.
Когда-то криптовалюта была просто кодом.
Потом — рынком.
Потом — мемом.
А затем она вышла за пределы Земли.
Не в отчётах и презентациях.
А в историях, которые уже больше похожи на легенды.
🌕 1. Лунная охота за сокровищами — Nakamoto_1
Это не история про «заработать».
Это история про идею.
Проект Nakamoto_1, связанный с LunarCrush, стал символическим шагом:
биткоин — больше не привязан к планете Земля.
По легенде проекта, ключ к биткоин-адресу был выгравирован на луноходе MAPP Rover, отправленном в рамках лунной миссии.
Не как банковский сейф.
А как межпланетный квест.
Суть здесь не в том, найдёт ли кто-то этот код.
А в самом факте:
Впервые в истории ценность, созданная в интернете,
стала частью космического нарратива.
Цифровой миф был запущен.
И этого уже не отменить.
🐕 2. $DOGE-1 — мем, который долетел до орбиты
Если первая история — философия,
то вторая — чистый крипто-абсурд.
Миссия DOGE-1, подготовленная SpaceX, стала первым космическим проектом, полностью оплаченным в Dogecoin.
Тот самый мем.
Та самая собака.
Та самая шутка.
Запуск несколько раз переносился, и в начале 2026 года рынок всё ещё ждёт финального старта.
Но факт уже зафиксирован в истории:
Мемкоин стал официальным платёжным средством
для реальной космической миссии.
$DOGE начинался как насмешка.
Но оказался слишком упрямым, чтобы исчезнуть.
🪙 3. Биткоин в физическом теле
В 2024 году биржа BitMEX отправила в космос физическую монету с выгравированным ключом к 1 $BTC на борту аппарата Peregrine.
Посадка не удалась.
Миссия завершилась аварией.
Но именно поэтому эта история стала важной.
Биткоин не достиг Луны.
Зато доказал, что крипта больше не боится выходить за рамки цифр.
Иногда попытка важнее результата.
Так рождаются реликвии.
🌌 Вместо вывода
Сегодня крипта — это не только рынок.
Это культура.
С мемами.
С легендами.
С историями, которые будут рассказывать даже тогда,
когда графики сотрутся,
а индексы страха перестанут обновляться.
Возможно, именно так и выглядит начало
новой мифологии цифровой эпохи.
#BTC #DOGE #CryptoHistory #LostCrypto #BinanceSquare

The idea behind blockchain technology was described as early as 1991 when research scientists Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta introduced a computationally practical solution for time-stamping digital documents so that they could not be backdated or tampered with. 
The system used a cryptographically secured chain of blocks to store the time-stamped documents and in 1992 Merkle trees were incorporated to the design, making it more efficient by allowing several documents to be collected into one block. However, this technology went unused and the patent lapsed in 2004, four years before the inception of Bitcoin.
Reusable Proof Of Work
In 2004, computer scientist and cryptographic activist Hal Finney (Harold Thomas Finney II)  introduced a system called RPoW, Reusable Proof Of Work. The system worked by receiving a non-exchangeable or a non-fungible Hashcash based proof of work token and in return created an RSA-signed token that could then be transferred from person to person. 
RPoW solved the double spending problem by keeping the ownership of tokens registered on a trusted server that was designed to allow users throughout the world to verify its correctness and integrity in real time. 
RPoW can be considered as an early prototype and a significant early step in the history of cryptocurrencies.
Bitcoin network
In late 2008 a white paper introducing a decentralized peer-to-peer electronic cash system - called Bitcoin - was posted to a cryptography mailing list by a person or group using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
Based on the Hashcash proof of work algorithm, but rather than using a hardware trusted computing function like the RPoW, the double spending protection in Bitcoin was provided by a decentralized peer-to-peer protocol for tracking and verifying the transactions. In short, Bitcoins are “mined” for a reward using the proof-of-work mechanism by individual miners and then verified by the decentralized nodes in the network.
On the 3rd of January 2009, Bitcoin came to existence when the first bitcoin block was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto, which had a reward of 50 bitcoins. The first recipient of Bitcoin was Hal Finney, he received 10 bitcoins from Satoshi Nakamoto in the world's first bitcoin transaction on 12 January 2009.
Ethereum
In 2013, Vitalik Buterin, a programmer and a co-founder of the Bitcoin Magazine stated that Bitcoin needed a scripting language for building decentralized applications. Failing to gain agreement in the community, Vitalik started the development of a new blockchain-based distributed computing platform, Ethereum, that featured a scripting functionality, called smart contracts.
Smart contracts are programs or scripts that are deployed and executed on the Ethereum blockchain, they can be used for example to make a transaction if certain conditions are met. Smart contracts are written in specific programming languages and compiled into bytecode, which a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine, called the Ethereum virtual machine (EVM) can then read and execute.
Developers are also able to create and publish applications that run inside Ethereum blockchain. These applications are usually referred to as DApps (decentralized applications) and there are already hundreds of DApps running in the Ethereum blockchain, including social media platforms, gambling applications, and financial exchanges.
The cryptocurrency of Ethereum is called Ether, it can be transferred between accounts and is used to pay the fees for the computational power used when executing smart contracts.
$BTC
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