While Elon Musk’s infatuation with satirical dog-themed crypto Dogecoin is well documented, the truth around his role in the project’s funding is less cut and dried.

雖然馬斯克對諷刺狗主題的加密狗幣的迷戀有據可查，但關於他在該項目融資中所扮演角色的真相卻鮮為人知。

On the one hand, American author Water Issacson’s Elon Musk biography discusses at length the controversial billionaire’s financial support for the project, while in a 2021 Decrypt article, Dogecoin Foundation director Ross Nicoll claims that it turned down his offer despite working closely with the Tesla founder since 2019.

一方面，美國作家沃特·伊薩克森(Water Issacson) 的埃隆·馬斯克(Elon Musk) 傳記詳細討論了這位備受爭議的億萬富翁對該項目的財務支持，而在2021 年Decrypt 的在一篇文章中，狗狗幣基金會董事羅斯·尼科爾(Ross Nicoll) 聲稱，儘管與特斯拉創始人密切合作，但拒絕了他的提議自2019年以來。

Whatever the truth, Musk’s admiration for the project is clear for all to see. Indeed, he even spent much of his appearance on Saturday Night Live promoting it.

無論真相如何，馬斯克對這個計畫的欽佩是有目共睹的。事實上，他甚至在《週六夜現場》中花了很多時間來宣傳它。

Not only that, Jared Birchall, who runs Musk’s family office, was also listed on the advisory board of the Dogecoin Foundation (though Musk would later take to Twitter — now X — to deny that Birchall or himself had any association with it).

不僅如此，負責馬斯克家族辦公室的賈里德·伯查爾(Jared Birchall) 還被列入了狗狗幣基金會的顧問委員會成員（儘管馬斯克後來在Twitter（現在是X）上否認伯查爾或他本人與該基金會有任何關聯）。

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However, despite Musk’s apparent support (financial or otherwise), Dogecoin’s development efforts have been slow. The core repository linked from the Dogecoin Foundation website shows that the last commit was almost three years ago, on May 18, 2021, and that was a template for people to submit bugs.

然而，儘管馬斯克明顯支持（財務或其他方面），狗狗幣的開發工作卻進展緩慢。狗狗幣基金會網站連結的核心儲存庫顯示，最後一次提交是在大約三年前，即 2021 年 5 月 18 日，這是人們提交錯誤的模板。

Most of the work for the next major release (1.21), announced in 2021, appears to have been completed but hasn’t been deployed. Other products have been updated more recently, including the ‘GigaWallet,’ which saw a commit today, the first since November. 

2021 年宣布的下一個主要版本 (1.21) 的大部分工作似乎已經完成，但尚未部署。其他產品最近也進行了更新，包括“GigaWallet”，它今天得到了承諾，這是自 11 月以來的首次承諾。

The Dogecoin Foundation is suffering administrative problems with two of its entities, MADEUPNUMBERS LTD and MUCH WOW LTD, both listed as ‘Accounts overdue’ on Companies House.

狗狗幣基金會的兩個實體 MADEUPNUMBERS LTD 和 MUCH WOW LTD 正面臨管理問題，這兩個實體均在 Companies House 上被列為「逾期帳戶」。

MUCH WOW LTD is also the sole member of Dogecoin Foundation Australia, based on corporate records reviewed by Protos.

根據 Protos 審查的公司記錄，MUCH WOW LTD 也是澳洲狗狗幣基金會的唯一成員。

Despite all the attention recently paid to Musk and Dogecoin, the project itself appears to be slow to make substantial changes.

儘管最近所有的注意力都集中在馬斯克和狗狗幣上，但該計畫本身似乎在做出實質改變方面進展緩慢。

Protos has reached out to a director of MUCH WOW LTD and MADEUPNUMBERS LTD to obtain clarification on the current status of the Dogecoin Foundation and will update this piece if we hear back.

Protos 已聯繫 MUCH WOW LTD 和 MADEUPNUMBERS LTD 的董事，以獲取有關狗狗幣基金會當前狀態的澄清，如果我們收到回复，我們將更新這篇文章。

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