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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, swapped its proof-of-work and rescaled three figures by four, then its creator divested his entire holding, citing his own influence over the price.
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.
The Google engineer who shipped Litecoin in 2011, called Bitcoin the soundest money in the space for a decade after, and sold or donated every coin he held in 2017.
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'.