{"id":10601,"date":"2023-04-25T04:17:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T04:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/?p=10601"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:22:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:22:55","slug":"billy-markus-and-jackson-palmer-founders-of-doge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/billy-markus-and-jackson-palmer-founders-of-doge","title":{"rendered":"Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer: Founders of DOGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_75 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Alternar tabla de contenidos\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #ffffff;color:#ffffff\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #ffffff;color:#ffffff\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/billy-markus-and-jackson-palmer-founders-of-doge\/#who_are_billy_markus_and_jackson_palmer\" >Who are Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/billy-markus-and-jackson-palmer-founders-of-doge\/#jackson_palmer_the_founder_of_dogecoin\" >Jackson Palmer: The founder of Dogecoin<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/billy-markus-and-jackson-palmer-founders-of-doge\/#billy_markus_the_co_founder_of_dogecoin\" >Billy Markus: The co founder of Dogecoin<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Tiempo de lectura:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutos<\/span><\/span><p>Dogecoin is one of the most interesting cryptos to analyze in the last decade.\u00a0<strong>Not only because of its current market capitalization (over $26 billion) but also because of its particular history and icon: the DOGE meme.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beyond the development behind DOGE,\u00a0<strong>it is evident that the constant support of SpaceX and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk helped it gain massive fame<\/strong>. Elon tweeted several times about the project and is a fervent advocate of dog money.<\/p>\n<p>Another factor that made it stand out from other cryptos and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/what-is-litecoin\/\">Litecoin<\/a>\u00a0derivative projects, (yes, Dogecoin is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/what-is-a-hard-fork\/\">fork<\/a>\u00a0of Litecoin)\u00a0<strong>was its symbol of a Shiba Inu dog that is already a famous internet meme.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Without a doubt, it is a project, by itself, funny that started as a joke.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless,\u00a0<strong>her fun and joy is her trademark and what even makes many of us remember her without having to dig into our memories.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But do you know who were the minds that conceived this idea and made it a reality? The two jokers who, far from being comedians, are incredible enthusiasts in the crypto world?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today we will take a brief look at who are the two characters that gave birth to Dogecoin (DOGE),\u00a0<\/strong>the crypto that captivated Elon Musk and the entire internet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"who_are_billy_markus_and_jackson_palmer\"><\/span>Who are Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<p>Dogecoin\u00a0<strong>was created by American programmer and former IBM engineer Billy Markus<\/strong>\u00a0and his friend,\u00a0<strong>Jackson Palmer<\/strong>, a marketing worker at\u00a0<strong>Adobe System in Sydney, Australia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Initially, Billy Markus tried to tinker with an existing crypto called \u201cBells\u201d based on the Nintendo game Animal Crossing.\u00a0<strong>His hope was to reach a larger user base than Bitcoin.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Faced with these plans, his colleague\u00a0<strong>Palmer<\/strong>\u00a0had an idea in mind and was arguably\u00a0<strong>the person who originally thought up the Dogecoin cryptocurrency.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, he didn\u2019t bring it to reality until a Front Range Community College student motivated him on Twitter.\u00a0<strong>It was there, where Palmer contacted Markus and the project was born in 2013.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s highlight a few things about both:<\/p>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"image_1574545672\" class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\">\n<div class=\"img-inner dark\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Quien-es-Billy-Markus-y-Jackson-Palmer-Fundadores-de-Dogecoin.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Quien-es-Billy-Markus-y-Jackson-Palmer-Fundadores-de-Dogecoin.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Quien-es-Billy-Markus-y-Jackson-Palmer-Fundadores-de-Dogecoin-300x205.jpg 300w\" alt=\"Billy Markus y Jackson Palmer: Fundadores de DOGE\" width=\"768\" height=\"526\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Quien-es-Billy-Markus-y-Jackson-Palmer-Fundadores-de-Dogecoin.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Quien-es-Billy-Markus-y-Jackson-Palmer-Fundadores-de-Dogecoin-300x205.jpg 300w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Quien-es-Billy-Markus-y-Jackson-Palmer-Fundadores-de-Dogecoin.jpg\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"jackson_palmer_the_founder_of_dogecoin\"><\/span>Jackson Palmer: The founder of Dogecoin<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Jackson Palmer defines himself as a geek and a \u201cmarketing\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0geek, having worked for a long time in the technology sector.<\/p>\n<p>He currently lives in San Francisco for work,\u00a0<strong>but is an Australian by birth<\/strong>. For years before the creation of Dogecoin, he was interested in cryptocurrencies and memes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In fact, he had read extensively about Bitcoin.\u00a0<\/strong>This made it possible for him<strong>\u00a0to design a successful project that unites the most famous meme at the time and the Bitcoin movement, reaching a high position among the crypto rankings.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At present, he is working as a product manager for Dogecoin in Bay Area (San Francisco) and,\u00a0<strong>since 2017, he is uploading videos to YouTube channel on cryptocurrencies and related topics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After years,\u00a0<strong>he has managed to build a nice community of people passionate about the technology behind cryptos<\/strong>. He also continuously interacts with his community through his Twitter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"billy_markus_the_co_founder_of_dogecoin\"><\/span>Billy Markus: The co founder of Dogecoin<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Markus can be described as a software engineer who is an expert in memes and makes jokes on the Internet. Precisely,<strong>\u00a0from one of his jokes against Bitcoin\u2019s popularity, Dogecoin was born.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Currently, they are not developing the coins,\u00a0<strong>but he is the CEO of Dogecoin. Apart from that, he tweets under the name Shibetoshi Nakamoto<\/strong>, a nick alluding to Bitcoin founder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/who-is-satoshi-nakamoto\/\">Satoshi Nakamoto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, he made headlines<strong>\u00a0because he sold all his cryptocurrencies for what it costs to buy a used Honda Civic ($10,000)<\/strong>. Among them, Litecoin, Bitcoin, DOGE and a bunch more.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of one of his common promises or sayings, in which he assures that he would always sell everything for what a used Honda Civic would cost.<\/p>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"image_549241071\" class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\">\n<div class=\"img-inner dark\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Quien-es-Billy-Markus-y-Jackson-Palmer-Fundadores-de-Dogecoin12.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Quien-es-Billy-Markus-y-Jackson-Palmer-Fundadores-de-Dogecoin12.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Quien-es-Billy-Markus-y-Jackson-Palmer-Fundadores-de-Dogecoin12-300x205.jpg 300w\" alt=\"Billy Markus y Jackson Palmer: Fundadores de DOGE\" width=\"768\" height=\"526\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Quien-es-Billy-Markus-y-Jackson-Palmer-Fundadores-de-Dogecoin12.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Quien-es-Billy-Markus-y-Jackson-Palmer-Fundadores-de-Dogecoin12-300x205.jpg 300w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Quien-es-Billy-Markus-y-Jackson-Palmer-Fundadores-de-Dogecoin12.jpg\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"is-divider divider clearfix\"><\/div>\n<p>This is the end of our journey, but if you want you can continue to expand the content about Dogecoin. Our team of editors has already written about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/what-is-dogecoin\/\">What is Dogecoin<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/how-to-mine-dogecoin\/\">How to mine Dogecoin<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/shiba-inu-vs-dogecoin\/\">What are the differences between Dogecoin and Shiba Inu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you have not yet joined this fascinating adventure of cryptos,\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/\">you can go to our home page<\/a>, check our services and buy your first cryptocurrencies in a simple and fast way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Tiempo de lectura:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutos<\/span><\/span>Dogecoin is one of the most interesting cryptos to analyze in the last decade.\u00a0Not only because of its current market capitalization (over $26 billion) but also because of its particular history and icon: the DOGE meme.\u00a0 Beyond the development behind DOGE,\u00a0it is evident that the constant support of SpaceX and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24632,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10601\/revisions\/24632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}