{"id":2520,"date":"2024-11-12T16:17:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2024-11-12T16:17:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:17:34","slug":"if-you-invested-100-in-dogecoin-when-the-meme-coin-launched-heres-how-much-youd-have-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=2520","title":{"rendered":"If You Invested $100 In Dogecoin When The Meme Coin Launched, Here&#8217;s How Much You&#8217;d Have Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Started as a joke in 2013, meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/doge\/usd\">DOGE<\/a>) remains one of the most valuable and talked-about cryptocurrencies today. Crypto and other coins in the sector have soared after\u00a0<strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u00a0won the 2024 presidential election, ushering in a potentially\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/11\/41786812\/which-musk-company-will-propel-dogecoins-future-x-tesla-spacex-or-the-boring-company\">more crypto-friendly administration.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at the history of Dogecoin and how much lucky investors who bought back in 2013 would have now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: Dogecoin was created in 2013 by<strong> Jackson Palmer <\/strong>and <strong>Billy Markus<\/strong>. The coin was meant to be a satirical coin to mock <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>), but over time has gained support from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/21\/12\/24814327\/2021-was-the-year-of-dogecoin-a-month-by-month-retrospective-with-top-stories\">a loyal community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer bought dogecoin.com and connected with Markus, who had previous experience with altcoins, including making a coin based on the Bells currency in the Animal Crossing video game. The duo made the coin in just a couple hours, with Markus previously saying much of the time on development was spent changing the font of the coin to Comic Sans.<\/p>\n<p>The cryptocurrency was based on the iconic Doge meme that stars\u00a0<strong>Kabosu<\/strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/05\/39002274\/kabosu-famous-shiba-inu-dog-who-inspired-creation-of-dogecoin-and-other-dog-cryptos-dies-a\">a Shiba Inu dog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A profile for Dogecoin was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gfinityesports.com\/cryptocurrency\/-when-did-dogecoin-start-trading-what-price-did-dogecoin-start-at-when-did-dogecoin-become-popular\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">created\u00a0<\/a>on Bitcointalk.org on Dec. 6, 2013. A subreddit for Dogecoin (r\/Dogecoin) was created on Dec. 8, 2013. The coin opened for trading on Dec. 15, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>One of the coin&#8217;s first uses was as a tipping bot on Reddit.<\/p>\n<p>The price &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/11\/41908812\/if-you-invested-100-in-dogecoin-when-the-meme-coin-launched-heres-how-much-youd-have-today\" alt=\"If\" you invested in dogecoin when the meme coin launched here how much have today>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started as a joke in 2013, meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) remains one of the most valuable and talked-about cryptocurrencies today. Crypto and other coins in the sector have soared after\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0won the 2024 presidential election, ushering in a potentially\u00a0more crypto-friendly administration. Here\u2019s a look at the history of Dogecoin and how much lucky investors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}