Markus Built Dogecoin in Hours by Modifying Bitcoin With Comic Sans
Billy Markus · Memes Rule The World with Dogecoin Creator Billy Markus | Where It Happens · Jan 19, 2022 · at 28:43
Dogecoin co-creator Billy Markus describes how he quickly developed the original Dogecoin client after seeing Jackson Palmer's website concept.
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“I just took the next couple hours, and like, all I wanted to do was change the regular bitcoin client to Be Comic Sans font, and then, like, have some custom stuff on it, like, instead of mining, it was, like, dig, and other stupid things like that, and, like, change some of the font, or the icons and then, yeah, that, that was it.”
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