In 2013, pizza delivery driver and software engineer Billy Markus co-created Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency meant as a joke. Inspired by the viral Shiba Inu “Doge” meme, he and his co-founder set out to parody the growing hype around Bitcoin and other digital coins. What started as internet satire unexpectedly ballooned into a phenomenon worth roughly $65 billion at its peak, driven by online communities and high-profile boosts from Elon Musk. Markus never anticipated his lighthearted experiment wou