Launched in 2013, Dogecoin was apparently created as a parody on Bitcoin and homage to the doge meme — a picture of a Shiba Inu accompanied by multicolored text in broken English.
Now, however, it seems that Dogecoin can no longer be considered a joke as last week it almost doubled in price, setting its total value at nearly $2 billion.
And while Dogecoin certainly cannot rival Bitcoin at this time, with the total value of the latter currently being about $270 billion, only time will tell how far this underdog of the cryptocurrency world can rise.