Dogecoin: Everything you need to know about the cryptocurrency

We're going to the moon. 

The proponents of Dogecoin or DOGE, a cryptocurrency that started as a joke but is now one of the most popular coins around, would have you believe that the sentence above is all you need to know about Dogecoin. 

In a way, they'd be right. Dogecoin does not require a lot of thinking. Fans of the cryptocurrency simply buy it and hodl it (a crypto way of saying "not selling") until...well, until something great happens. Until you become rich, perhaps. 

But is it really that simple? Read on. 

The history of Dogecoin

It started as a joke. Bitcoin, the original cryptocurrency, was an impressive technical innovation that let anyone exchange digital money at low fees and without the need to ask for anyone's permission. But Bitcoin was also open source, meaning everyone could copy it, and at one point, everyone did, with clones such as Litecoin and Peercoin popping up everywhere.  Read more...