Why Buy DOGE?
1) Doge was first used by Reddiors as an alternative to upvoting a post. If a user posted something like, “Hey ‘Dogebot’ tip this Redditor seventeen Dogecoin,” then that Reddit user would automatically receive Dogecoins.
2) Celebrity endorsements from Elon Musk and others like Mark Cuban, rapper Lil Yachty also played a crucial part in Dogecoin’s rise to stardom.
Doge – What’s in a Meme?
1) In 2013, the Doge meme became popular among the netizens of the internet. Almost at the same time, bitcoins and cryptocurrencies were gaining a lot of attention. In the same year, Jackson Palmer, a software engineer, made a joke combining two of the internet’s most talked-about topics: cryptocurrency and Doge.
2) Little did he realise that the crypto lovers will actually take it seriously. He decided to take the joke a step further and bought the domain Dogecoin.com and left a note on the site: If you want to make Dogecoin a reality, get in touch!