Dogecoin (DOGE) was officially launched by Adobe engineer Jackson Palmer and IBM software developer Billy Markus in 2013. They created the DOGE cryptocurrency to blatantly mock the industry that they believed had already attracted too much money. The cryptocurrency users recall Doge, a misspelled use of “dog,” as the internet meme representing the Shiba Inu Japanese dog breed with its multicolored text in Comic Sans font, along with questionable English grammar.