Made as a literal joke in 2013 by IBM software engineer Billy Markus and Adobe engineer Jackson Palmer, Dogecoin is now a multi-billion dollar crypto iconβ¦ helped partly by βDogefatherβ Elon Musk relentlessly tweeting about it for the first half of 2021. The memecoin was conceived via a fork from existing cryptocurrencies Luckycoin and Litecoin, with no hard cap on its supply. Today, apart from deriving value from its meme status, DOGE can be used as a tip on Reddit and Twitter β adding a use case for the token.