Billy Marcus and Jackson Palmer created Dogecoin in 2013 as a Trojan horse of sorts to introduce cryptocurrency to a growing audience. They hoped to separate cryptocurrency from the dark web and make it more accessible by associating it with memes. In addition, they intended to ridicule the then hype around cryptocurrencies. In 2013, cryptocurrency was not as well accepted as it is now. Bitcoin in particular has been linked to Silk Road, a digital black market platform that has hosted illegal...