Jackson Palmer
Appearances
Up First from NPR
Gambling with Memes
And now today, this coin is already about to hit 800k market cap and break through a mill.
Up First from NPR
Gambling with Memes
I'd come home for the day and an Australian kind of tradition, you know, cracked open a beer and I was just sitting around. And the way it kind of came together was that I had one browser tab open with this article about Doge. And right next to it, I had CoinMarketCap, which is a very popular website for checking the valuations of cryptocurrencies.
Up First from NPR
Gambling with Memes
So my tab names kind of almost spelt it out for me in a way. And I just thought, Dogecoin, that's hilarious.
Up First from NPR
Gambling with Memes
But... Whenever you have something that's going really successful, you have a successful community like that, and there's a monetary element to it, it's like blood in the water, right? Like sharks can smell it from miles away.
Up First from NPR
Gambling with Memes
Yeah, tell me about it, right? The irony is definitely not lost on me. You know, I feel guilty enough for creating Dogecoin, which I'm sure that people have, you know, I know that people have lost money on in the past and that pains me.