Dogecoin

Keyword reference — entries that mention this term in body prose.

Defined in: Dogecoin launches as a meme — Markus and Palmer fork Litecoin (December 2013)

4 entries reference this keyword in body prose.

Event November 22, 2017 Biography Biography

Elon Musk (1971–) — Tesla and SpaceX founder, named as a Satoshi candidate in a 2017 blog post

Elon Musk (born 1971): Tesla and SpaceX founder, PayPal co-founder. A 2017 blog post named him as Satoshi; he denied it within a week. His Bitcoin footprint is Tesla's 2021 purchase and Dogecoin.

Event October 13, 2011 Article

Litecoin launches as 'silver to Bitcoin's gold' — Charlie Lee forks Bitcoin with Scrypt PoW (October 2011)

Charlie Lee

Charlie Lee launched Litecoin on October 13, 2011 as a Bitcoin-codebase fork with Scrypt PoW, 2.5-minute blocks, and 84 M cap. He framed it as 'silver to Bitcoin's gold'.

Updated October 31, 2008 Analysis

Bitcoin's 21 million cap vs adjustable money — Wei Dai's regret, the fiat baseline, and 15 years of cryptocurrency monetary design

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto, Wei Dai, Adam Back, Vitalik Buterin

Bitcoin chose a hard 21M cap; b-money (1998) proposed elastic supply; fiat runs central-bank discretion. The cypherpunk debate, Wei Dai's 2013 regret, and 15 years of cryptocurrency variants.

Updated October 31, 2008 Analysis

Bitcoin's family tree: forks, altcoins, and the mainline Bitcoin that endured

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto, Mike Hearn, Gavin Andresen, Amaury Séchet, Craig Wright, Jihan Wu, Mike Belshe, Roger Ver, Vitalik Buterin

Genealogy of every Bitcoin protocol fork that left a separate chain alive (Bitcoin Cash, SV, Gold) and the adjacent cryptocurrencies derived from Bitcoin (Namecoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin).