Feb 4, 2025 · Elon Musk has enlisted six young engineers as part of the DOGE team, some still in college, to spearhead a government overhaul aimed at slashing waste and inefficiencies, reported Daily Mail.

4 days ago · Musk is using his platform X to claim DOGE victories, including feeding the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) "into the wood chipper" and "shutting down" what he described as ...

4 days ago · The acronym DOGE is a nod to Musk's support for a cryptocurrency called dogecoin, which was created as a joke in 2021 by two software engineers and uses the image of a smiling Shiba Inu dog.

The development of Dogecoin is open, permissionless, and participatory. Over the years, a varied group of developers has contributed to the development of Dogecoin Core, Dogecoin’s reference implementation.

2 days ago · Democrats and unions are fighting DOGE's actions in court. Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency group has made swift work of the billionaire's goal to scale back or dismantle much of ...

5 days ago · DOGE aims to improve government efficiency and reduce waste by modernizing technology and software. What started as a funny image of a dog has evolved into a government agency led by Elon Musk.

Dogecoin (/ ˈ d oʊ (d) ʒ k ɔɪ n / DOHJ-koyn or DOHZH-koyn, [2] Abbreviation: DOGE; sign: Ð) is a cryptocurrency created by software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, who decided to create a payment system as a joke, making fun of the wild speculation in cryptocurrencies at the time. [3] It is considered both the first "meme coin", and more specifically the first "dog coin".

Dogecoin’s primary purpose has always been to be used as a currency. Billy Markus, co-creator of Dogecoin with Jackson Palmer, acted as a solo developer for the first Dogecoin Core releases. In 2014, Billy and Jackson left Dogecoin development, and a new development team was formed.

May 14, 2021 · Dogecoin developers have turned down funding from Elon Musk, choosing instead to tap his brain to make the cryptocurrency a greener, cheaper alternative to Bitcoin, Decrypt learned in an exclusive interview with one of its developers today.

Dogecoin is a community-driven cryptocurrency that was inspired by a Shiba Inu meme. The Dogecoin Core software allows anyone to operate a node in the Dogecoin blockchain networks and uses the Scrypt hashing method for Proof of Work. It is adapted from Bitcoin Core and other cryptocurrencies.