My Joke Cryptocurrency Hit $2 Billion and Something Is Very Wrong - Motherboard

— Google Tag Manager (noscript) — — End Google Tag Manager (noscript) — Latest SHARE TWEET Jackson Palmer Jan 11 2018, 7:23pm Image: Flickr/Aranami. Composition: Jordan Pearson Jackson Palmer is an Australian entrepreneur and technologist best known for creating the infamously successful “joke” cryptocurrency Dogecoin. Currently based out of San Francisco, Jackson works as a product manager but is still active in the cryptocurrency space. Jackson has holdings in various cryptocurrencies, including less than $50 worth of Dogecoin. You can follow him on Twitter and YouTube . When I jokingly tweeted about “investing in Dogecoin” in late 2013, I never imagined that the tongue-in-cheek cryptocurrency I had just brought into the world would still be around in the year 2018, let alone hit a $2 billion market cap like it just did over the weekend. Last year saw an explosion of ...

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