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9 entries reference this keyword in body prose.
Dogecoin has no whitepaper, no company, and no cap on its supply — a decade-old test of whether Bitcoin's scarcity is what a market actually pays for.
Litecoin copied Bitcoin's code and rescaled four parameters by an identical factor of four, then its creator divested his entire holding, citing his own influence over the price.
The Google engineer who shipped Litecoin in 2011, called Bitcoin the soundest money in the space for a decade after, and sold every coin he held in 2017.
Registered dogecoin.com as a joke about altcoin proliferation, left the community in 2015, called Bitcoin cult-like in 2018, and in 2021 rejected the whole industry in public.
Twelve chains, sorted by what each one's issuance rule settles about the price of a single unit — and by how much of that price the rule never touches.
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.
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.
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).
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'.