{"id":55287,"date":"2021-12-27T16:51:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T14:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=55287"},"modified":"2025-09-04T00:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:36:05","slug":"dogecoin-co-founder-says-he-will-no-longer-work-on-the-meme-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/dogecoin-co-founder-says-he-will-no-longer-work-on-the-meme-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogecoin co-founder says he will no longer work on the meme cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dogecoin (DOGE) co-founder Billy Markus said he would never work on the project again because of the community&#8217;s attitude.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">i never will. working on a crypto project is terrible as i have actually found the more you do for people, the more entitled they get and worse they treat you. <\/p>\n<p>i respect the developers a lot for volunteering to do so for all these years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillyM2k\/status\/1475287992101072899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I will never work on Dogecoin again. Working on a crypto project is terrible, because I have found that the more you do for people, the more rights they get and the worse they treat you,&#8221; \u2014 wrote him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Markus also expressed respect for developers for volunteering on the meme cryptocurrency for many years.<\/p>\n<p>He reminded that he does not speak on behalf of Dogecoin, since he is not part of the project. Markus described himself as a member of the community and said that he holds about 220 000 DOGE (about $42 000 at the time of writing).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I will defend those who, in my view, are actively making the space better, and restrain those who do not. I will speak about whatever I want,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yet another reminder:<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t speak for dogecoin.<\/p>\n<p>I am not on the project. I am a community member. I hold about 220k doge. <\/p>\n<p>I will defend those who I feel are actively making the space better. I will discourage those who I feel aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>I will talk about whatever I want.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillyM2k\/status\/1475285705513320450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In February 2021, Markus described how, in 2015, he left the project and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/dogecoin-cofounder-explains-how-he-got-rid-of-his-coins-in-2015\">sold his savings in Dogecoin<\/a> for an amount equivalent to a used Honda Civic.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in June, Markus <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/dogecoin-co-founder-sells-nft-collection-tied-to-meme-cryptocurrency\">sold a collection of non-fungible tokens<\/a> with the Dogecoin logo.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dogecoin (DOGE) co-founder Billy Markus said he would never work on the project again because of the community&#8217;s attitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-55287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-dogecoin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55289,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55287\/revisions\/55289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}