One night in November 2013, bored after a beer, Australian engineer Jackson Palmer created a new currency. He was on vacation at his parent’s home in Gosford, a suburb of Sydney. Intrigued by Bitcoin, Palmer was downloading the cryptocurrency’s blockchain, a database of its transactions, to run a ‘node’ on its network and mine it on his home computer. But the internet connection was slow. … Continue reading Dogecoin: The Joke Cryptocurrency That Made It Big