Dogecoin is everywhere. Some say it's the new Bitcoin. Elon Musk loves it. Here's what you need to know about the cryptocurrency.

Dogecoin and litecoin use a hashing algorithm called Scrypt, which is less complex than SHA-256. This makes mining litecoin and dogecoin much faster and less energy intensive than bitcoin.

Software engineers Billy Marcus and Jackson Palmer created dogecoin in late 2013. Palmer branded the cryptocurrency’s logo using a meme popular at the time that featured the deliberately ...

Dogecoin is called the “fun and friendly internet currency” by its creators. The token was created in 2013 as satire about the proliferation of dubious crypto coins at the time. The “Doge ...

In fact, Dogecoin miners earn 10,000 Doge per block and blocks are created every minute. This means that each day 14,400,000 new tokens flood into the wallets of miners or are sold into the market.

Dogecoin is the hottest, quirkiest cryptocurrency on the planet. The total value of the dogecoins in circulation is nearly $50 billion — not bad for a digital currency that started as a joke.