Dogecoin co-creator Billy Markus recently joined Benzinga’s “Moon or Bust” to share his story of creating Dogecoin, how he’s involved today and what he thinks of Elon Musk.
Early Days
Markus got into cryptocurrency due to Bitcoin but quickly pivoted to other easier-to-mine coins like Litecoin and Litecoin clones. He said it took a long time to mine a small amount of Bitcoin in a week (0.04) and made his room really hot.Markus gave himself a weekend project to create his own coin, which became Bell’s. He was obsessed with Nintendo Co. game “Animal Crossing” at the time.
