Billy Markus, who created the legendary meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin together with Jackson Palmer and launched it in 2013, has revealed the details of how DOGE was created 10 years ago. But, more importantly, he exposed a big secret about Dogecoin that has allowed it to exist until now and will allow it to exist longer on the market.

잭슨 파머(Jackson Palmer)와 함께 전설적인 밈 암호화폐 도지코인(Dogecoin)을 만들어 2013년 출시한 빌리 마커스(Billy Markus)가 10년 전 DOGE가 어떻게 만들어졌는지 자세히 공개했습니다. 그러나 더 중요한 것은 그는 Dogecoin이 지금까지 존재하게 했고 앞으로도 시장에서 더 오랫동안 존재할 수 있게 해주는 큰 비밀을 폭로했다는 것입니다.

Some believe that this “bug” gives Dogecoin a major advantage over Bitcoin as an actual replacement for cash.

Here’s how Markus and Palmer created Dogecoin

On Dec. 6, the 10th “birthday” of Dogecoin was celebrated, and Markus published an X post, sharing some details about how he created the very first meme cryptocurrency in the world.

12월 6일, Dogecoin의 10번째 "생일"을 축하했으며 Markus는 X 포스트를 게시하여 그가 세계 최초의 밈 암호화폐를 어떻게 만들었는지에 대한 세부 정보를 공유했습니다.

Markus did not share all of the details, but from his tweet published on Dec. 6, 2013, 10 years ago, it is clear that it was Jackson Palmer who suggested the idea of creating Dogecoin, and Markus responded to his call as he found it interesting.

10 years ago i saw a funny tweet about the idea of dogecoin and i decided to make it in a few hours, then a bunch of weird things happened and now the currency is worth 14 billion dollars for some reason https://t.co/2qEcAf5y8h

— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) December 6, 2023

Markus responded, offered his services as a crypto developer and sent Palmer a link to the bitcointalk forum; that page contained the details of a coin that he had already made a code for – “Bells.”

Markus는 이에 응답하여 암호화폐 개발자로서의 서비스를 제공하고 Palmer에게 bitcointalk 포럼 링크를 보냈습니다. 그 페이지에는 그가 이미 코드 "벨"을 만든 동전의 세부 정보가 포함되어 있었습니다.

Ultimately, Billy Markus created DOGE in just two hours, sitting at home, and then “a bunch of weird things happened and now the currency is worth 14 billion dollars for some reason.”

Bug left in Dogecoin

X account @reddit_lies, with slightly more than 300,000 followers, pointed out to Markus that Dogecoin contains a curious feature – “Dogecoin doesn't have an artificial limit on the number of coins that can be mined.” The user pointed out that it makes DOGE better than its predecessor, Bitcoin, with a fixed supply of 21 million in the sense that Dogecoin can actually replace regular fiat cash.

팔로어가 300,000명이 조금 넘는 X 계정 @reddit_lies는 Markus에게 Dogecoin에 흥미로운 기능이 포함되어 있다고 지적했습니다. "Dogecoin에는 채굴할 수 있는 코인 수에 인위적인 제한이 없습니다." 사용자는 Dogecoin이 실제로 일반 법정화폐 현금을 대체할 수 있다는 점에서 고정 공급량 2,100만 개로 DOGE가 이전 버전인 Bitcoin보다 더 낫다고 지적했습니다.

Markus explained that he was aware of this feature and said that it was a “bug” that he and Palmer left there on purpose. They did not expect Dogecoin to be around for more than a year since they did not believe that people would be interested in this parody of Bitcoin and its code any longer than that.

yeah, that was a bug 🤣 but we left it in it was designed to die in about a year cuz i thought that was the max amount of time people would be amused by the joke, but a bug gave it a long tail if that bug was fixed, doge woulda died many years ago

— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) December 6, 2023

— 나카모토 시베토시(@BillyM2k) 2023년 12월 6일

However, Markus admitted that the bug “gave it a long tail.” If they had fixed that issue, Markus said, “doge woulda died many years ago.”

그러나 Markus는 버그가 "긴 꼬리를 주었다"고 인정했습니다. 만약 그들이 그 문제를 해결했다면, Markus는 "doge는 몇 년 전에 죽었을 것입니다."라고 말했습니다.