Billy Markus

3 entries

Event July 27, 2026 Added July 27, 2026 Updated October 28, 2026 Altcoin / Stablecoin

Dogecoin: No Whitepaper, No Supply Cap, and a Joke That Kept Returning to the Top Ten

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Jackson Palmer, Billy Markus

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.

Event April 24, 2015 Added July 26, 2026 Updated November 9, 2026 Biography

Jackson Palmer — Dogecoin's co-creator, who walked out and called Bitcoin a religion

Jackson Palmer ↔ Billy Markus

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.

Event December 6, 2013 Added May 6, 2026 Updated November 9, 2026 Article

Dogecoin launches as a meme — Markus and Palmer fork Luckycoin, a Litecoin offshoot (December 2013)

Billy Markus, Jackson Palmer ↔ Billy Markus, Jackson Palmer

Markus and Palmer launched Dogecoin on December 6, 2013, built on Luckycoin (a Litecoin fork) around the 'Doge' meme. Initially a satire of crypto speculation, it grew into a top-10 cryptocurrency.